She was playing in the display window of a building in a small city in Cuba while her mother socialized inside. She was aware of the curiosity of strangers yet secure in the presence of her care-giving adults. She was caught between her play with the bars and the on-lookers and her connection with her caregivers. “Choices: you may choose the bars or you may choose to turn around and walk out.”
The image is fractured into four frames, each from a digital negative of the scene and edited to help tell the story. Each of the frames is hand-printed as a cyanotype on watercolor paper then toned with natural plant substances, either for the light coffee hue or for the more henna tint. Then the parts are reconstructed into the whole. “Each print is unique; each print is hand-crafted; each print has a story in its creation.”
The image is fractured into four frames, each from a digital negative of the scene and edited to help tell the story. Each of the frames is hand-printed as a cyanotype on watercolor paper then toned with natural plant substances, either for the light coffee hue or for the more henna tint. Then the parts are reconstructed into the whole. “Each print is unique; each print is hand-crafted; each print has a story in its creation.”