Home Sensitive
Czech Republic, 2024
Anthotype prints
In this project, I am exploring the powerful emotions tied to the concepts of home and belonging. I invited my female immigrant friends to share with me photographs that captured their personal interpretations of 'home.' Together, we discussed the plants that held special meaning in their memories of home.
I created these colorful prints using the anthotype technique, which involves printing with plant juices and sunlight. For this project, I extracted juice from pumpkin, sweet peppers, cucumber and zucchini peels, spinach leaves, geranium petals, petunias, marigolds, roses, raspberries, other plants, and even red wine.
As these delicate prints emerged, they reminded us of the transient nature of memory and the enduring essence of our roots. Each fading image whispers untold stories, inviting viewers to reflect on their own journeys of home and belonging.
Each print takes several hours to several weeks to create. It's a long and meditative process that requires patience, but it is also exciting. This project is still in progress.
“An anthotype (from Greek άνθος anthos “flower” and τύπος týpos “imprint”, also called Nature Printing) is an image created using photosensitive material from plants under the influence of light.
An emulsion is made from crushed flower petals or any other light-sensitive plant, fruit or vegetable. A sheet of paper is covered with the emulsion, and then it is dried.
Some leaves, a transparent photo positive or other material is placed on the paper; and then it is exposed to direct full sunlight until the image part not covered by the material is bleached out by the sun rays.
The original color remains in the shadowed parts depending on the exposure. The paper remains sensitive against such rays. It cannot be fixed.”
Awards & exhibitions
2024 “Tree of Eyes”. FAMUSTEK Gallery. Prague, Czech Republic. “Home Sensitive” series