Surfaces of the Mother Earth. Natural textures we can walk by, focusing on their beauty. They belong to us all, to Lanzarote.
Recycled 100% pure cotton hand made paper. These photos are proposed in the Golden Ratio (proporción áurea) 25 x 15,5 cm. Mounted on a thick recycled cardboard in a way to enhance the three dimensional aspect.
Lava series.
Sand series.
Lichens series.
Sea Rocks series.
My Algae collection.
Sea weeds of Lanzarote, photographed and printed in different formats.
Although with a personal different technique and style they are a tribute to Anna Atkins, the botanist and first woman photogrpher who made, using cyanotype, the first photographic book of history: “British Algae”.
My series of Lanzarote Algae printed on Arches Platine 310 g cotton paper, using a hake brush for coating the emulsion, leaving the brush strokes visible.
A series of prints on Canson Watercolor paper, framed into a recycled cardboard hand painted frame.
On glasses and on bottles, the print is made on tissue paper.
Medicine-Plants.
In an apttempt to mantain health we use medicines, from plants or synthetic. On the matter, some miths or fears reign creating different views. Trying to artistically approach the matter I photographed some medicinal Plants of Lanzarote and printed them in #cyanotype on Medicine information leaflets. The cardboard frame is a scrap from another cyanotype print.
Plantas-Medicamentos.
En el tentativo de mantener la salud utilizamos medicamentos, procedentes de plantas u obtenidos por síntesis. Sobre la materia, algunos mitos o miedos reinan generando visiones diferentes. Intentando acercarme artisticamente al asunto, he fotografiado algunas Plantas medicinales de Lanzarote e impresas en #cianotipia sobre prospectos de Medicamentos. El marco en cartón es reciclado de otra impresión en cianotipia.
Condensed in two minutes the video of the work I make in three days: cutting all the paper, coating with the emulsion, exposing, developing, etc. up to the final print ready to be sold in the artisan markets of Lanzarote or posted worldwide.
En solo dos minutos el video del trabajo que hago en tres días: cortar todo el papel, poner la emulsion, exponer, revelar, etc. hasta la impresión final lista para ser vendida en los mercadillos artesanos de Lanzarote o enviada en todo el mundo.
Limited edition photograph printed with the classic 1842 Cyanotype formula on Arches Platine, a 100% cotton rag with no alkaline reserve, especially made for alternative photography such as platinum, p.palladium, cyanotype, etc.
The first print I offer you is a wonderful moment at sunset in Famara, Lanzarote. Young boys gliding with gestures that reminded me La Danse by Matisse.
It comes together with a dedicated, free verse poem by Solange Rincón, a good friend and poet living in Maracaibo, Venezuela, who won several prizes and have books published.
I present you my panoramas of Lanzarote, in 30×40 cm (12×16 inches approx.) or 15×40 cm. They are all original photographic prints made on Arches Platine, a museum grade paper made of pure cotton fibers, without alkaline reserve for alternative photographic processes. The tones are beautiful, from prussian blue to turquoise.
The colours of the following images are an approximation due to reproduction techniques changed during time.
Ermitas Icónicas (Iconic chapels).
A series of images of the nicest small chapels of Lanzarote.
They are printed in cyanotype over Arches Platine 310g, museum grade pure cotton paper, upcycling the thick central part of my cyanometers (on the back side it is visible the center mark for cutting it).
I used gold leaf for these icons, as gilded icons were those medieval paintings made on wooden table by Cimabue in Italy and also in Eastern Europe and Russia with Bizantine origin.
They are 10 cm (4″) diam., ready to hang or frame.
For a long time I wanted to create something organic and large. I present to you here my limited edition works of art, in a dimension larger than usual for me. To overcome the limit of the negative dimensions I split the photographic print into several negatives, creating diptyches, triptyches, polyptyches. Each print is made in a limited edition of 24.
These prints, using the historic photographic process of Cyanotype, have been handmade in Lanzarote and show you organic parts found in the island. Each photograph has been hand printed on a thin paper, the Hahnemuhle Sumi-e 80g rice paper, that has been bonded later over Arches Platine 100% 310g pure cotton paper as a heavier support, with a technique called Chine Collé, using natural powdered starch paste. The Chine Collé is water reversible, put the work of art into water (pH 7) for one hour to detach the print from its paper support.
The work of art is attached to a fine-art Aluminium Dibond with a thin double-sided adhesive tape all around its borders and kept under light pressure to cure. The Dibond has a square frame on the back to help you hang the work on your wall.
Each print is labelled on the back of the dibond with the edition details and signed. A certificate of autenthicity comes within the work. All the works are carefully protected with packaging foam and put inside a customized cardboard box. The box(es) are shipped safely protected with other wrapping material, inside an outer box. Registered mail, or collect it in person.
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“Triton detail”
Three prints, 30×30 cm each.
“Lava rock”
Four prints, 30×30 cm each.
“Long shell vertical”
Two prints, 40×30 cm each. This work is very beautiful also hung horizontally.
Paolo Saccheri 