This new series of work centers around my explorations of Mexico City. In August, 2025 I traveled to Mexico City for 33 days. During that time I participated in an artist residency with four other artists from around the world. I took a plethora of art supplies to Mexico City for the adventure. However, within 24 hours I met an elderly man selling vintage doilies at an outdoor market. My direction had been set. Over the coming days and weeks I would print the doilies in cyanotype onto cotton fabric. Each day I would make patterns with the doilies, laying them out on the gallery floor. At night I would soak the fabric in cyanotype solution, letting it dry in the dark hours. Before dawn I would wake up to move the dried fabric pieces into bags for exposing in the midday sun. At midday I would move the compositions out into the Mexico City sun. At around 3PM each day it would begin to rain. I would then bring the cyanotypes in for rinsing. After the afternoon rains I would hang the cyanotypes on the rooftop laundry line for drying and observation. Each day this pattern repeated, with various struggles, explorations, and successes. Interestingly, I didn’t plan specifically to make rain. I was mostly focused on successfully printing a city scape and playing with shapes. But, as the days turned into weeks I began to realize my cycle was of rising and raining. Repeatedly. Rising and raining.
Rise I
48″x60″ on Canvas
Cyanotype and Oil
Rise II
48″x60″
Cyanotype and Oil
Gully Washer
36″x48″ on Canvas
Cyanotype and Rust
Pouring
32″x42″ on Cotton
Cyanotype Collage
Good Cloud Day
20″x30″
Cyanotype Collage
Raining
24″x48″
Cyanotype on Cotton
Open
29″x33″ on Cotton
Cyanotype and Embroidery Floss