TILT
January - May, 2026
Yale Divinity School
New Haven, CT
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Tilt is an exhibition of paintings and cyanotype prints produced with sunlight that has passed through the windows of Marquand Chapel. The prints were made during two important astronomical weeks—the Autumnal Equinox, and the Winter Solstice—capturing different moments of light during earth's position in its orbit around the sun. While cyanotypes are often made outside in direct sunlight, these prints were made with sunlight that had passed into the building, passing through the filter of the Chapel’s windows and architecture.
The prints are made on linen that has been photosensitized with two iron salts: ferric ammonium citrate (which is light sensitive) and potassium ferricyanide. After the exposure, the linen is stretched onto wooden frames, and in some cases sized with rabbit skin glue. The edges of the prints are built up with gesso and marble dust. Without disrupting the sun print, these applications make the surfaces taut and the edges hard like the architecture the light has passed through.
The small arched works came about in the following weeks while contemplating the representation of light using paint. Bands of red, green, and blue—the three primary colors in light mixing—are painted a top canvases the shape of Marquand Chapel’s windows. The colors vibrate beside each other, making them hard to look at—and yet, if one shifts their gaze immediately to a cyanotype, a prismatic afterimage appears on the surface of the print. There are all the colors in the white light.
Tilt (01), 2025-6
46 x 72 in
Cyanotype on linen
Tilt (12), 2025-26
Gouache on canvas, with cyanotype on linen
8 in x 20 in
Tilt (03), 2025-26
Cyanotype on linen with gesso and marble dust on edges
36 in x 36 in
Tilt (05), 2025-26
Cyanotype on linen with gesso, marble dust, and gouache on edges
30 in x 42 in
Tilt (08), 2025-26
Gouache on canvas, with cyanotype on linen
8 in x 20 in
Tilt (02), 2025-26
Cyanotype on linen with gesso and marble dust on edges
36 in x 36 in
Tilt (07), 2025-26
Cyanotype on linen with gesso, marble dust, and gouache on edges
20 in x 16 in
Tilt (06), 2025-26
Cyanotype on linen with gesso, marble dust, and gouache on edges
20 in x 16 in
Tilt (09), 2025-26
Gouache on canvas, with cyanotype on linen
8 in x 20 in
Tilt (04), 2025-26
Cyanotype on linen with gesso, marble dust, and gouache
28 in x 28 in
Tilt (10), 2025-26
Gouache on canvas, with cyanotype on linen
8 in x 20 in
Tilt (11), 2025-26
Gouache on canvas, with cyanotype on linen
8 in x 20 in