Sue Reno

Mink and Sycamore

I am interested in the small mammals that make their homes near my suburban habitat in Pennsylvania. I enjoy catching glimpses of them, and am saddened but also intrigued by their eventual demise and their skeletal remains. Mink and Sycamore is the latest in a series that uses macro photos I take of the skulls, printed as cyanotypes, combined with botanical prints from the area I observed them in. It’s a bright and somewhat cheerful momento mori.

Materials: artist painted and commercial cotton and silk fabrics, wool yarn

Techniques: cyanotype prints from original macro photos, leaf monoprints, patchwork, couching, stitching

Size:46”h x 59”w

For Sale: $6,600