Barbara Boissevain | Experimental Cyanotype Fan Coral I

Mixed Media: Cyanotype And Metallic Watercolor, Processed In The Gulf Of Mexico
Edition of 5
Dimensions (WxH): 45 x 60cm

Working across photography and mixed media, the artist creates long-form series exploring the complex relationship between human activity and the natural world. Central to the practice is an interest in nature's remarkable capacity to regenerate and reclaim landscapes altered by human activity. Grounded in fieldwork, conversations with scientists and local communities, and archival research, each project develops through an experimental engagement with materials, allowing process to become an extension of meaning. In Oceans Not Mars, cyanotypes are intentionally processed in different bodies of salt water, using the chemistry of each location to deepen the exploration of place, time, and the dynamic relationship between photographic image and environment. In Endangered Ice, photography, monoprint, and watercolor are combined to evoke the accelerating loss of Arctic glaciers driven by a rapidly changing climate, with the fragile, layered materials reflecting the transience and impermanence of the ice itself. Rather than presenting fixed conclusions, the work invites reflection on environmental change through an interdisciplinary practice that brings together scientific understanding, material experimentation, and poetic experience.