Emilie Lundstrøm

Artist statement:                                                                                                                                                            

Emilie Lundstrøm uses cyanotype printed on alternative materials as a way to circumvent photography's technical accuracy.

The analog process's imprecisions (both deliberate and accidental) introduce painterly elements, destabilize familiar forms, and ask the viewer to reconsider that which they may have otherwise passed over.

In his Principles of Psychology, William James quotes Hermann von Helmholtz as saying: "If we wish to keep our attention on one and the same object, we must constantly seek to find out something new about it, especially if other powerful impressions are attracting us away."

Lundstrøm's cyanotype prints of sculptural forms from nature and portraiture open new observational possibilities, holding the viewer's attention and emphasizing the reciprocal relationship of viewer and subject.