FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
COMMONPLACE
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Waxed cyanotype on kozo; 8.5"x11"; image is 6"x6"; Unique editions of 3; 2014
Handmade Clamshell Box; unique; 2015
Handmade Clamshell Box with Handbound Artist Book (Japanese Stab-binding: waxed cyanotypes on kozo, hand-made kozo paper; blue Lokta paper) 8.5"x11"; unique; 2015
Handbound Artist Book (Japanese Stab-binding: waxed cyanotypes on kozo, hand-made kozo paper; blue Lokta paper) 8.5"x11"; unique; 2015
Handbound Artist Book (Japanese Stab-binding: waxed cyanotypes on kozo, hand-made kozo paper; blue Lokta paper) 8.5"x11"; unique; 2015
“Commonplace” handbound book, installation view as part of my solo show “Past as Present” at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 2016.
“Commonplace” prints (unframed) & handbound book, installation view as part of my solo show “Past as Present” at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 2016.
“Commonplace” framed prints, as part of “Daily Reveries” exhibition at New England School of Photography, Boston, 2019.
“Commonplace” installed at the Hynes Convention Center (Boston) as part of “Woven Moments: Lindsey Beal & Sarah Trahan” (2019).
“Commonplace” framed prints, installed at the Hynes Center in Boston for “Woven Moments: Lindsey Beal & Sarah Trahan”, 2019.
A commonplace book was kept by writers at the turn of the twentieth century to record quotes, information and daily occurrences. Similar to a scrapbook, these notes grew over time into substantial volumes that allow us to glimpse into the writer’s life and era. Social media is our way of logging our daily lives, thoughts and links that grow into a substantial feed. Through cell phone photography, I document my surroundings and daily life, whether monumental events or banal details. I chose a small selection of these daily photographs to hand print in cyanotype, a historical process originally used to record personal collections. Commonplace is an ongoing catalog of my daily life.