I'm Erin Lale, of Green Valley, Nevada, where I make sunprints, also known as heliographs.
Sunprinting is a form of contact photography; the still lives and botanical prints are photonegative images of real plants from my garden. The "foreground" colors are made first, by painting one or more colors onto the fabric and then letting it dry. Then the "background" color is painted on in an all-over colorwash, the objects such as flowers and paper cutouts are applied, and the sunprint is left in the sun to print. I use
Setacolor Transparent for the sunprinting. Sometimes I use a little
Setacolor Pearlescent for the first layer.
As an artwork using plants from the earth and sunlight, a sunprint is the manifestation of the union of the divine and earthly realities. To me, art is meditation.
