Made by
sun & wildflowers
Original cyanotype prints made from the native flowers and plants of Central Texas. Light, botany, and time — pressed permanently into paper.
Original Prints
Each piece is a direct impression — plant pressed to paper, sun doing the rest.
Rooted in the
Texas Landscape
I am an artist living and working in Austin, Texas, where the cedar hills meet the wildflower meadows along the Colorado River corridor. My practice centers on cyanotype printmaking — one of the oldest photographic processes, and one of the most elemental.
Many of my specimens come from plants I grow myself — others are foraged from broken or fallen stems I find in the hill country of Austin. Bluebonnets in early spring. Prairie verbena in summer. The silver seedheads of Indiangrass come fall. Each plant carries the story of a specific place and season, pressed permanently into paper.
My work is an act of attention — to native ecology, to the particular quality of Texas light, and to the slow, irreversible beauty of a contact print. I believe there is something worth preserving in the ordinary wildness of this land.
Sunlight &
Native Flora
Cyanotype is one of the oldest photographic processes — it asks nothing more than iron chemistry, a plant, and an honest afternoon of Texas sun. The result is blue and irreversible.
Gathering
Many specimens come from plants I grow myself. Others are foraged from broken or fallen stems found in the hill country of Austin — bluebonnets in late spring, verbena in summer, dried seedheads in fall. The plant chooses the print.
Sensitizing
In low light I brush paper with a ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide solution. The chemistry disappears into the fibers and waits quietly for the sun.
Composing
Each plant is placed by hand onto the sensitized surface. There is no lens, no darkroom, no distance between subject and image. The print is a direct record of contact.
Developing
Exposed paper is submerged in water. Deep Prussian blue blooms through the surface. Where the plant lay — white silence. The image has arrived.
"Every print is a record of one afternoon of Texas light — unrepeatable, botanical, and blue."— On the cyanotype process
Let's
Connect
I welcome inquiries about original prints, limited editions, commissions, studio visits, and collaborations with conservation groups, botanical gardens, and galleries. I read every message.