Susan Detroy

The special texture created by the light sensitive emulsion sets this piece apart and enhances the pinhole cyanotype image. The pinhole camera produces a soft close up cactus image sweep through by painted light sensitive emulsion. This is printed on rice paper using cyanotype historic photographic process. Offered as a print and can be framed. Using historic Cyanotype printing these Cactus Window pieces are in the collection “Worship of Precious-Cactus.” Produced with a hand made pinhole camera the lens effect adds a fun and unique perspective. Created during my employment as a photographic support staff in a science bio optics lab housed in a basement I appreciated the sunken windows at the back of the lab, using them to produce art.. The hand produced art is inspired by Cactus in their diversity of form. Artworks in the collection are a mix of transfers prints, watercolor, pen and pencil, including historic photographic techniques of VanDyke Brown and Cyanotype. Each artwork is one of a kind, worshipping the wonder of plants in our earthly existence.