The Cyanotype adventures continue… Author Thomas Wolfe’s father, a stonecutter, sold the statue to H. F. Johnson to mark his family’s plot. The statue was referenced frequently in Wolfe’s groundbreaking first book, “Look Homeward, Angel.”

I took this color photograph of the “Look Homeward, Angel” statue in Oakdale Cemetery, downtown Hendersonville, North Carolina yesterday. I edited it, processed it, and then converted it to black and white. I then created a negative by inverting the image, and cropping it to square. I printed the negative on transparency film, then placed the film atop a chemically-coated piece of 140-pound watercolor paper, and exposed it to ultraviolet light for 15 minutes. After the water and hydrogen peroxide baths, the end product is an 8″ x 8″ cyanotype of the statue.

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