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Sky Dancer is a series of cyanotype prints where the figures (which are caught mid-gesture) live inside a circle: a planet, a portal, a held breath. They appear as white silhouettes, a quality that emerges naturally from the cyanotype process, where the areas shielded from light remain paper white, stripping away facial detail and individual identity until what remains is pure posture and gesture.

The botanicals that crowd the edges are not decoration; they are the world persisting, alive and indifferent, while someone stands inside it trying to believe in themselves.

The cyanotype process mirrors this tension. You coat the paper, expose it to light, and then surrender it to chemistry you cannot fully control. The process resists speed at every stage. At a time when social media compresses everything into the instant and the measurable, and every creative act is shadowed by the pressure to output, to perform, to be seen producing, the cyanotype offers no such option — it takes as long as it takes.