Portland, Oregon
Grace, 2007
Pillow: cyanotype on cotton, buckwheat hulls and lavender
Image size: 3 x 11.5 x 7 inches
$450
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This work is inspired by the history of photography and my amazing students.
I was making slides for my classes, revisiting some of the earliest history of photography. I was looking at Anna Atkins work of 1843. She was an English botanist, photographer and the first person, let alone woman, to publish a book illustrated exclusively with photographic images, Sun Gardens-Victorian Photograms.
I wanted to teach this process to my classes and decided I should make some examples to show because I had not made photograms for years. I turned to my garden, which brings me so much joy, for my subject matter. I was hooked at the first image I printed. I have always loved alternative processes.
Cyanotypes are an 1800’s ultraviolet photographic process. These works are contact prints made by placing the object or negative directly onto the light sensitive material, exposed in sunlight and washed.
The pillows are all completely hand sewn, including the insert, and are filled with buckwheat hulls and lavender.
I hope you enjoy the work as much as I have making it.Artist Biography
Heidi L. Kirkpatrick, an established fine art photographer, based in Portland Oregon has exhibited widely over the last ten years. Kirkpatrick’s work often depicts a view of the world experienced by women. Kirkpatrick develops her own images, including silver gelatin printing, alternative processes, photographs using a Holga toy camera, transparent images on film and 3-D mixed media objects. In addition to being an experienced mid-career artist, Kirkpatrick teaches high school photography at the Northwest Academy as well. Kirkpatrick is currently represented by the G. Gibson Gallery in Seattle, Washington.
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