Sun Pictures
Sun Pictures are drawings of sunlight printed with sunlight. I draw images of light passing through foliage with ink on glass. The glass drawings are contact-printed with sunlight onto hand-coated light-sensitive paper using a salt-based photographic formula from the 1830s.
Salt print photographs printed on Arches Platine paper
variable sizes from 5”x7” to 11”x14”
2022-Present (ongoing)
Produced as an Artist-in-Residence, AiR Niederösterreich, Krems, Austria
Detail of hand-drawn ink-on-glass negative.
Exposing the hand-coated light sensitive paper sandwiched with a hand-drawn glass negative in a contact printer with sunlight.
