Hello there! It's Jocelyn Mathewes from my studio in Appalachia. And just for you, a very special look at some works in progress.
Each of these prints is a cyanotype gone purposefully awry (bleached, overwashed, or neglected), or photographed in some middle stage of development (just after sun exposure completes but before rinsing, or just after the initial touch of water and before the chemical reaction finishes).
(Long time fans may notice this resembles my past approach for the series Chemical Flight, from a few years ago.)
This line from Christian Wiman’s He Held Radical Light, speaks most to me about how strange it is share these records of prints in the thick of transformation— “The self that intones the poem is not the soul that received it.”
xo,
jocelyn
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