Christina Z. Anderson
These 5 images are tricolor gum over cyanotype, and are representative of
different veins I have been working on: text in landscape, social commentary, the ironic, and contemporary vanitas/wabi sabi beauty. I don't usually work anymore in this size, preferring larger (16x20) but due to the portfolio size limitation this is some of what I have on hand. Actually, I intend to produce a portfolio of smaller gums than these, even, mini examples of my large gum prints that I will more easily be able to carry around with me when needing to show work at shows or conferences. That is my goal for the summer, along with a series of palladium prints which I have entitled the Blurry Family Series.

Of these 5 prints, "Bump" is the only manipulated image, a composite of 3 straight images. Otherwise I most prefer the found image to the manufactured one, because the authenticity of life is a vein that runs throughout my work.

Gum printing is my process of choice. I prefer it for its painterly qualities, for
its surprise, for its juiciness, for the ability to add layer upon layer upon layer
at any time, again and again. I also prefer it for its false sense of color that is
just off true. I can change the emotion of a piece just by pigment choice, and
I like that kind of control.