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Conversations with Light

​I’ve found in cyanotype the mediator I was searching for between painting and photography,
a space where I can explore materiality and embodiment while pursuing my fascination with fleeting, overlooked moments of light.

Light I find to be the most interesting subject 

And cyanotype is nothing if not light itself. Working with it feels like stepping into a circle that never closes, an ongoing conversation with light

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In this series, I invite that conversation with light, and thus, with time, with seasons, with place, with the present moment..

Sometimes I work under direct sunlight, sometimes indirect shadows.
I’ll make a mark, a brushstroke, a gesture and light responds.

The day, the weather, the season, the hour
they all decide the tone of its reply.
Sometimes bold,
sometimes subtle.

I answer back. 
Sometimes I wait,
letting time in between,

giving space to cyanotype finish its frase 
I’ll return days later,
add something new,
and keep going until the dialogue feels complete.

Now and then, I invite others into the exchange
perhaps water for fluidity,
or bleaching agents for lightness,
coffee or tea for deeper, more grounded tones.

And sometimes,
it’s only light and me.

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Formal Description of work: Cyanotype chemistry on natural fabric, playing with direct and indirect exposures while applying, creating compositions of exposed, fixed and altered cyanotype.

©SOFIA BARROSO

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