Cyanotype (9.9cm x 15cm)
28 minutes exposure
January 3rd, 2015
Paper: Fabriano Ruvido
Pacific Heights (San Francisco) - A door Gnome
The cyanotype process has always captivated me—not merely for its simplicity but for its alchemical power to transform. It does not merely reproduce; it mutates, transfigures, and imbues the ordinary with an enigmatic essence. It veils and reveals, withholding clarity so that the viewer must lean in, decipher, hypothesize, and truly engage with the image. It invites a dialogue, not a monologue.
Consider a simple gnome—a humble ornament perched atop an entrance stairwell. In the everyday, it’s a fleeting detail, a small gesture lost in the rhythm of passing feet. But through the cyanotype’s indigo lens, it becomes something else entirely. What are we looking at? A mythic figure resurrected from a medieval tapestry? A fragment of folklore that refuses to fade? The cyanotype grants it a new life, a new story, suspending it somewhere between the tangible and the imaginary.
