Luisa Adelfio
‘Lux, Aqua, Aurum et Somnium’ is a concept that not only engages process, materials, the artist’s hand, and printmaking, but also harnesses the natural world. The material used for this project are linen, cotton paper, thread, monotype, aquatint, aquafort, and cyanotype developed using water from the Mediterranean sea and light from the Mediterranean sun. The symbolism is quintessentially feminine; La Luce, L’acqua, La Luna (see ‘Lux’, ‘Lunae,’ and ‘Kaos’), textiles (linen backdrop), sewing (attaching paper to linen) and birth (Incipit Vita Nova=egg/ova) all represent traditional women’s work and matriliny.
Cyanotype with interventions using plastic bags, layering, and multiple exposures.
This image was made using holy water blessed by the Church of San Isidro, the patron saint of Madrid. It was exposed in the clear sunlight of that city.
Watercolor, graphite and gold leaf on paper, mounted onto linen, treated with cyanotype solution processed in the Sicilian sun with water from the Mediterranean.
Etching and gold leaf on paper, mounted onto linen treated with cyanotype solution and processed in the Sicilian sun with water from the Mediterranean.
Watercolor, graphite and gold leaf on paper, mounted onto linen treated with cyanotype solution and processed in the Sicilian sun with water from the Mediterranean.
Monotype, graphite and gold leaf on paper, mounted onto linen treated with cyanotype solution and processed in the Sicilian sun with water from the Mediterranean.
Gold leaf on linen treated with cyanotype solution and processed in the Sicilian sun with water from the Mediterranean.
Watercolor, graphite and gold leaf on paper, mounted onto linen treated with cyanotype solution and processed in the Sicilian sun with water from the Mediterranean.
Watercolor, graphite and gold leaf on paper, mounted onto linen treated with cyanotype solution and processed in the Sicilian sun with water from the Mediterranean.
