From the press release:

Alyssa Salomon is a photographer, poet, consummate craftsperson and, also, a bit of a mad scientist. Using her own recipes for the nineteenth-century photographic processes of cyanotype and van dyke printing, Salomon makes handmade prints that “recall an accumulation of sights seen and linked by treasured recollections.” Her images record moments—snippets of experience—which seek to connect what is human with what is wild: tree branches against a stark winter sky, birds frozen in mid air, a private moment relishing the feel of water. Salomon’s camera becomes the human eye, winking on these moments of serenity and delight, connecting disparate subjects that invoke the richness of our senses….

Salomon infuses her images with emotion through her masterful use of these antiquated processes. She heightens the velvety surfaces inherent to van dyke and cyanotype by printing on handmade paper and sealing the surfaces with wax, creating images that are suffused with romantic abstraction. In addition to traditional framed photographs, this exhibition features her newest series of works on handmade, stretched abaca-paper disks. The result of a recent collaboration with renowned papermaker, Helen Hiebert, these pieces allow light to radiate behind the images. They appear as portholes, eyes into another, quietly magical world. As Salomon says, “ordinary and wondrous phenomena are my means and my subject.”