SEWANHACKY
Isle of Shells,
Cyanotype prints, Cutchogue, Long Island 2021
was produced for the exhibition
” SEEING THE UNSEEN” April 1 - 30, 2022 , Tufkenian Fine Arts, Glendale, CA
The cyanotype prints were exposed and then developed in waters of the Peconic Bay, North Shore, Long Island, New York, Midsummer 2021. Sunny days were interspersed with rain, mist, drizzle, overcast skies, and cloudy days. Weather, wind, and time are embedded in the prints.
24 pages, 11” x 14” cyanotype prints on handmade Fabriano Artistico paper in
6 folio signatures, bound with an exposed long stitch binding.
Edition of 3 , Los Angeles, CA 2022
“On the Dunes” 14” x 22” page 2-3, “SEWANHACKY, Isle of Shells”, Artist Book
Beachgrass with sand, Cutchogue, NY 2021
American beachgrass has a rhizome structure that holds the dunes together, protecting the shoreline from erosion. Although beachgrass thrives in the hot, salty environment with constant burial in shifting sands it cannot withstand people walking on it.
On a sunny day, I laid alongside the dune, and with outstretched arms held the paper behind the beachgrass clumps growing in the sand while the sun exposed the paper.
On the cloudy day with a great wind, a sea grass clump found floating in the ocean, and then dried, was pressed down on the paper under a piece of glass. The sun gives what the sun gives.