This large ‘Medusa’ cyanotype was made using very large film negative ortho film and real snake sheds that took several years to harvest. The sheds are whole and intact and laid on physically to make the image. The piece is on 300 grm Arches watercolor paper and measures 32” x 52”. Piece comes signed. This deep blue is a result of the the *cyanotype method—more details on the process below:

*The cyanotype process was developed by scientist and astronomer John
Herschel in 1842. The process was created only three years after
photography was invented. This process instead of using silver like
typical photography uses iron. The iron ‘salt’ solutions are combined
and coated on watercolor paper in a dark room and allowed to dry. When
a negative or plant material is placed on the paper it becomes a film
negative. The uncovered areas are exposed to UV light and cause a
reaction to the iron solution reducing it chemically to a deep
Prussian blue. The print is then washed and the covered dark areas on
the negative create the white and the exposed become deep blue. It is
a simple and natural process.