Colorado Wild Daisy

Cyanotype on watercolor paper
10″ x 8″ on paper, surrounded with white 14″ x 11″ acid-free mat board.

Colorado Alpine Daisy is an original cyanotype on archival watercolor paper. These sweet little perennials grow in my Colorado high alpine garden. I love them for the delicate white flowers that turn into hundreds of little seeds pods at the season's end. I love the dynamic energy of these hundreds of little seeds as they explode out of their pods.

Cyanotypes are one of photography's oldest printing processes. Its print's distinctive feature is its cyan blue shade, which results from its exposure to ultraviolet light. I used plants from my garden to block the UV rays and create unique, botanical silhouettes.