Gopher Clover Cyanotype Print By Emly Blumer

Emily Blumer is a Bay Area ecological artist, naturalist, and educator. She uses bones from local raptor pellets to create mandalas. This intricate clover-shaped mandala features a gopher skull at its center, emphasized by a halo of teeth and ultra-thin bones. As a consequence of how the sunlight fell during the cyanotype process, the center teeth and skull are slightly brighter than the surrounding bones, and as a result they appear to glow. Bones fan out at each corner of the mandala to make the "leaf" shape of the clover, and vertebrae punctuate the outline. This cyanotype print measures 8 x 8" and is mounted on an 11 x 15" mat, and comes signed by the artist.