Carolyn Strand has been an active artist on the Alaskan art scene sinceshe moved here in 1973. Her work is in many corporate and private collections in Alaska and across the US. She has also received many "1% for Art" commissions from the State of Alaska. Carolyn works in both fiber and photography. "Fish Market Blues" combines photography and fiber. The images were taken with black and white 35mm film and then enlarged onto 11"x14" otho-lith negative film. The fabric covering the body of the fish was treated with cyanotype photo emulsion and then contact printed with the large negatives. Cyanotype is a non-silver photographic process discovered in 1864. It is a slow printing process that uses sunlight as the light source. After the images are exposed to the sun for the correct amount of time (varies by time of day, year, etc.), they are developed in water. After all the chemicals are washed out you are left with a permanent "blue" print on the fabric. Carolyn has mastered cyanotype printing on fabric and has taught workshops on the process. Her work has won many awards in both State and National juried shows. Her work was also featured in the Winter 2002 issue of "Bella Armoire Art to Wear" a magazine of wearable art. The images used in "Fish Market Blues" were taken at the Fish Market at Pike Street Market in Seattle. Of course the fish images used for this entry are of Alaskan King Salmon! Carolyn is an avid fisherwoman and spends summers fishing for salmon at her cabin on Seldovia Bay. Seldovia is an old Russian village across Kachemak Bay from Homer. Seldovia is only accessible byboat or plane. For further information Carolyn can be contacted at: cstrandartist@hotmail.com