Artist Spotlight: Kirstin Brug
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Crafting cyanotypes is an old photographic technique that artist, mother, singer-songwriter, and massage therapist Kirstin Brug says got her through the darker days of the pandemic.
“I found myself needing to express things that words and sound could not capture. How momentary everything is and how fragile. Tangible. Fitting that I was also studying the effects of physical touch on the human body as I worked toward my massage therapy license, which I obtained almost exactly one year from the time we first shut down. I loved working in the darkroom when I was in school for photography eighteen years ago, and as it felt like the world was burning around me, I kept thinking about this process.” After treating watercolor paper with chemicals, she places objects on the paper and lets it develop in the sun.
She continued, “I needed something to balance the biology I was studying. I needed a way to visually map what was passing through my consciousness to find this sense of tangibility. A response call from the echoing void.”
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