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Botanica
Botanical portraits—gilded vellum, pigment, kallitype, platinum/palladium, cyanotype.
ABOUT THIS WORK
These are portraits of plants, which sounds gentle until you watch one being made. Each sits for the camera, then gets the treatment: pigment on translucent vellum or handmade papers, some gilded from the reverse with Dutch gold leaf. The leaf goes where the light says, not where the rule book says.
But there's no single recipe, and you'll never meet the same image in two chemistries. What I see in the plant — and want you to feel — decides how it gets made. The composition and the light pick the process, not the other way around. Some pieces stay gilded on vellum; others go to straight pigment on cotton rag, kallitype, platinum/palladium, or cyanotype. The process is part of the portrait, not the delivery method.
The toolbox keeps growing, too. Cyanotype just moved in. Argyrotype is on the bench.
Every piece is a handmade limited edition of 20 per size, signed and numbered. When they're gone, the plant gets a successor, not a reprint.
ROOM ONE
Gilded Oleander Edition of 20
Luminous Callas Edition of 20
Luminous Sunflowers Edition of 20
Luminous Artichoke Edition of 20
Delicate Edition of 20
Remembrance Edition of 20
A behind the scenes look at the photographing of sunflowers for the gilded sunflower print
Each size is an edition of 20 — when they're gone, they're gone.
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SIGN THE GUEST BOOK
Tell me what stopped you.
A line, a word, a memory the piece knocked loose. Email is optional — this isn't a mailing-list trap.