An original wet cyanotype using plants and flowers from Katie’s home garden in Mullumbimby. Katie utilises the alternative photographic method of wet cyanotype and the photogram technique to make these stunning prints on paper. Katie often employs stitching as an act of meditation. This contemplative time integrates the overarching concepts.

This work contemplates self-care and the concept of Kintsugi. It is a reminder to take quiet time out in nature to revive and repair yourself.

PAPER SIZE: 56 cm diameter 300 gsm

The PAPER: Handmade and sustainable Khadi Round Paper, Cold Pressed, 320gsm (100% Cotton).

The print is titled, signed and dated (2021) on the front bottom in lead pencil.

Waxed Tasmanian Oak Box frame with glass by BLUE BOY STUDIO (The best professional frames in the Northern Rivers).

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This work is currently available for PICK UP, Mullumbimby.

Delivery is available for a 50 km radius from Mullumbimby.

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Kintsugi

“The ancient Japanese philosophy that helps us accept our flaws. The 15th-century practice, meaning “to join with gold”, is a reminder to stay optimistic when things fall apart and to celebrate the flaws and missteps of life. The kintsugi technique is an extension of the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, which sees beauty in the incomplete and value in simplicity. The broken pieces’ gilded restoration usually takes up to three months, as the fragments are carefully glued together with the sap of an indigenous Japanese tree, left to dry for a few weeks and then adorned with gold running along its cracks.”

By Terushi Sho from http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181021-japans-unusual-way-to-view-the-world (Accessed 2024).

A note on beautiful Khadi papers: “I love working with these papers. They feel lovely to touch texturally. The deckled edge is stunning, and I love the rawness and imperfections of these papers. They feel 100% natural. I know I am purchasing from a sustainable supplier, “ Katie Alleva

Khadi Papers

“Handmade papers are made sheet by sheet and not in a continuous roll. Khadi Papers not only use off-cuts from neighbouring cotton production houses to make their papers, but they also use a variety of other recycled materials, such as jute sacks, and other tropical crop residual fibres, such as banana leaf and sugar cane. None of their paper is made from wood pulp, and as such, they have no negative impact on India's forests.

The Khadi paper makers bore their own water and use a variety of rainwater-capturing methods, ensuring at all times that no water is wasted. Whilst 'virgin' water is used first for white papers, it is then recycled and reused for light colours, then dark colours and then for crop fibre papers. No chlorine, no bleach and no harmful chemicals are used in any process, and the final run-off is pH neutral, where is is then used on their organic farm. “

https://mes.net.au/blogs/news/khadi-papers-hand-made-cotton-rag-fine-art-paper#:~:text=Khadi%20Papers%20not%20only%20use,used%20on%20their%20organic%20farm. (Accessed 2025).

This is an original artwork and is copyrighted under the Australian copyright Act. Please ask the creator for permission to use this image. Katie Alleva, 2025.