The Cleanest Touch series
Embossing with the Ground, Revealing with the Sky
2024 - ongoing
Embossing with the Ground, Revealing with the Sky
2024 - ongoing
Work Details:
A traveling art project containing a guided sensuous immersion in different natural sets, followed by series of cyanotypes of different sizes and on different materials, as the harvest of these nature immersions.
Some of the cyanotypes are hand toned with green tea.
A traveling art project containing a guided sensuous immersion in different natural sets, followed by series of cyanotypes of different sizes and on different materials, as the harvest of these nature immersions.
Some of the cyanotypes are hand toned with green tea.
For The Cleanest Touch, I felt that a digital print would be a disruption, a contrast to the immersive and sensuous process behind the photographs.
With the desire to maintain the integrity of the concept, I started to explore various handmade photography techniques where direct sunlight can be used to reveal the images: embossing with the ground, and revealing with the sky. I chose the cyanotype technique for its unpredictability and the wide range of creative possibilities it offers.
With the desire to maintain the integrity of the concept, I started to explore various handmade photography techniques where direct sunlight can be used to reveal the images: embossing with the ground, and revealing with the sky. I chose the cyanotype technique for its unpredictability and the wide range of creative possibilities it offers.
The Cleanest Touch is between our skin and Earth’s skin. Together they create a texture imprint through rest and gravity - a collaborative graphic art by us and the ground beneath us. The photos are the visible trace of an immersive, contemplative process of deep resting in Nature.
I started this project partly as a practice of self-healing from a chronic condition that I've been dealing with for the past four years, and partly as a pure exploration of my perception of the threshold between my body and the surrounding landscape. Soon after, I extended it into a guided immersive process, inviting participants, through verbal poetic cues and questions, to gradually come home to ground, let go of anything that keeps them aways from the earth, and bond with gravity as the love force between us and our planet.
I started this project partly as a practice of self-healing from a chronic condition that I've been dealing with for the past four years, and partly as a pure exploration of my perception of the threshold between my body and the surrounding landscape. Soon after, I extended it into a guided immersive process, inviting participants, through verbal poetic cues and questions, to gradually come home to ground, let go of anything that keeps them aways from the earth, and bond with gravity as the love force between us and our planet.
If this project were an iceberg, the photographs would be the tip of it. Beneath lies an entire embodied process involving our skin, the ground, and gravity.
The terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within the terrain. (David Abram)
The Cleanest Touch 01, 2025
Cyanotype, Arches paper 100%cotton 300mg
56 x 76cm (22" x 30")
Cyanotype, Arches paper 100%cotton 300mg
56 x 76cm (22" x 30")
The Cleanest Touch 02, 2025
Cyanotype, Fedrigoni paper 100%cotton 300mg
79 x 109cm (31" x 43")
Cyanotype, Fedrigoni paper 100%cotton 300mg
79 x 109cm (31" x 43")
The Cleanest Touch 03, 2025
Cyanotype, Fedrigoni paper 100%cotton 300mg
79 x 109cm (31" x 43")
Cyanotype, Fedrigoni paper 100%cotton 300mg
79 x 109cm (31" x 43")
The Cleanest Touch 04, 2025
Cyanotype, Fedrigoni paper 100%cotton 300mg
79 x 109cm (31" x 43")
Cyanotype, Fedrigoni paper 100%cotton 300mg
79 x 109cm (31" x 43")
The Cleanest Touch 05, 2025
Cyanotype, Arches paper 100%cotton 300mg
12 x 25cm (4.7" x 9.8")
Cyanotype, Arches paper 100%cotton 300mg
12 x 25cm (4.7" x 9.8")
The Cleanest Touch 06, 2025
Cyanotype toned with green tea
Fedrigoni paper 100% cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
Cyanotype toned with green tea
Fedrigoni paper 100% cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
The Cleanest Touch 07, 2025
Cyanotype toned with green tea
Fedrigoni paper 100% cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
Cyanotype toned with green tea
Fedrigoni paper 100% cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
The Cleanest Touch 08, 2025
Cyanotype toned with green tea
Fedrigoni paper 100% cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
Cyanotype toned with green tea
Fedrigoni paper 100% cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
The Cleanest Touch 09, 2025
Cyanotype, Arches paper 100%cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
Cyanotype, Arches paper 100%cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
The Cleanest Touch 10, 2025
Cyanotype toned with green tea
Fedrigoni paper 100% cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
Cyanotype toned with green tea
Fedrigoni paper 100% cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
The Cleanest Touch 11, 2025
Cyanotype toned with green tea
Fedrigoni paper 100% cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
Cyanotype toned with green tea
Fedrigoni paper 100% cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
The Cleanest Touch 12, 2025
Cyanotype toned with green tea
Arches paper 100% cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
Cyanotype toned with green tea
Arches paper 100% cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
The Cleanest Touch 13, 2025
Cyanotype toned with green tea
Arches paper 100% cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
Cyanotype toned with green tea
Arches paper 100% cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
The Cleanest Touch 14, 2025
Cyanotype
Arches paper 100% cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
Cyanotype
Arches paper 100% cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
The Cleanest Touch 15, 2025
Cyanotype toned with green tea
Arches paper 100% cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
Cyanotype toned with green tea
Arches paper 100% cotton 300mg
~ x ~cm (~" x ~")
