Title: Sleepwalking // Artist: Kim Arthurs
about the piece
| “Sleepwalking” is a Cyanotype crafted with botanicals grown from the artist’s garden and foraged from walks in the woods. The Cyanotype process is a historical, alternative photographic blueprint process that uses ultraviolet light-sensitive iron salts, and produces a negative of an object or image through contact-printing, using sunlight as the source of exposure, and developing the image in water. This elemental process deeply resonates with the artist, who blends their water sign personality with a passion for horticulture, and finds therapeutic influence in growing botanicals and tending to their garden every season. The artist uses their garden as a source for botanicals to reimagine into art, and prints their artwork in the garden in sunlight. |
about the author // Kim Arthurs
| Kim Arthurs (they/them) is a queer artist, writer, and double Pisces from Providence, RI. They have had their artwork installed in various locations across New England, they like to write by moonlight, and you can find them in the garden with their cat, or submerged in saltwater. You can explore more of their portfolio at http://www.moonersmakes.com and follow @moonersmakes |
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