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Celadon Bamboo I (18 x 24" original monotype) | Photography by Christine So | Thomas Deans Fine Art in Atlanta
Celadon Bamboo I (18 x 24" original monotype) | Photography by Christine So | Thomas Deans Fine Art in Atlanta
Celadon Bamboo I (18 x 24" original monotype) | Photography by Christine So | Thomas Deans Fine Art in Atlanta

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Christine So

Celadon Bamboo I (18 x 24" original monotype) - Photography

Featured In Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

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This pale green bamboo monotype is ever so slightly darker than the two in the diptych sold together of the same name "Celadon Bamboo Diptych" but is the same size.

Although this looks like a block print or screen print it is actually a form of 19th century photography called a cyanotype.

“Cyan” means blue in Greek. However I dramatically altered the normal ratios of the two chemicals which comprise the photo emulsion, yielding not the traditional dark blue and white but a pale mint green and pale yellow. This is a very soft subtle pastel hue.

This was not made with ink and a printing press. All my botanical cyanotypes are unique monoprints, having been made with fresh cut plants which wilted soon afterwards. There is no block or metal plate which can be inked and re-used.

Item Celadon Bamboo I (18 x 24" original monotype)
Created by Christine So
Christine So
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2023
Hand-Printed Botanical, Landscape and Abstract Cyanotypes

Christine So is a native San Franciscan painter, photographer and printmaker living across the bay in the hills of Oakland, California. Her paintings and cyanotypes have been commissioned by Mayo Clinic, Ritz Carlton, Kimpton Hotels, Starbucks, MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, UTMB Hospital in Galveston and purchased by private collectors in 15 countries, among them, Timothée Chalamet.

Her calm, monochromatic, nature-inspired works on paper are not printed with ink but are actually a form of photography from the 1800s. She works in the antique photographic process of cyanotypes, creating abstract and botanical monotypes in shades of blue as well as landscape photographs of the foggy woods where she lives. The plants used in her one-off prints are cut from her own garden or found in the woods nearby and printed on pure cotton watercolor paper. No two are alike. Only her landscape photographs developed using giant negatives and the same cyanotype chemicals are replicable, yet even those hand-printed photographs each differ slightly.

Most of the works listed here on Wescover.com are unframed works on paper, specifically cyanotypes. However, Christine So paints in acrylic on canvas and oil on panel as well, and there are about 15 paintings on canvas and panel listed. Most are not framed, but a rare few are. Please read the entire description.

NOTE: Most of the works on paper are sold unframed --although the display photos may depict them as framed on a virtual wall to give a sense of their eventual size once a mat and frame are added. Take note of the item's description before purchasing.