Edie Bresler

Summer has always meant days at the ocean. I love the smell of salty air, warm sand between my toes and the peacefulness that stems from watching waves ebb and flow.

During summer 2020, all the beaches were closed due to Covid so I began using the Cyanotype process to conjure  ocean memories. 

These are photographs unmoored and disconnected from the physical world. I am drawing with light, chemistry and time, so the ocean referent resides not in the world as we know it, but in a collective imagination.

Each unique Cyanotype is a different mental and emotional reenactment. Like all memories, they have their flaws however, the process fostered a joyful liberation from quarantine.