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Experimental Portrait 16

10 Layered toned Cianotype 

unique piece

Tri-color cyanotype layered over single-color cyanotypes carbonated and toned to coffee and green tea, over other Tri-color cyanotype, 15x21x3сm.

My generation was born in a very prosperous, peaceful and serene period of history. One observed the world with wonder and hope, there were no world wars, economic crises, climatic crises or hard-to-digest dramas…we were born lucky, everything was growing and stretching towards infinity. The events of the past few years have created an escalation of terror and anxiety within us, and I believe that not being used to it, we have suffered a deep crisis regarding our confidence of the future. We have seen our parents grow in employment and create economic stability exponentially, and now we don’t know when our children will be able to afford even a room to rent in a small to medium-sized town. We have experienced the expansion of our rights and now we watch them one by one fade away. We used to have vacation vacations that lasted months and now to afford a weekend away we have to work all year round. Food is very expensive and for a visit to the gastroenterologist if you are out of money, you have to wait 15 months, we are collapsing, war is advancing, viruses, global warming. It’s normal that then our mind tries to protect itself from this constant state of alertness by pushing thoughts away and making us live a sluggish, sleepy, slumbering everyday life, making this anxiety grow in us and then we can’t explain it…. And we pay for psychotherapy sessions to figure out how to move on… and digest it all…
Maybe it would be worth it after all to try to live well, as much as we can, to change our perspective and be reborn, to believe in the connectedness of all things again, to be active again, to take off the auto navigator. I don’t know how, I’m still thinking about it, do you guys have any ideas?