Atwater Designs

I have been following Sarah of Atwater Designs for a few months on instagram. I have always been interested in cynotype. Especially, since it was a woman who first discovered the process and published the first photography book about it. Her name was Anna Atkins. Anna Atkins. Sarah has a beautiful website. Sometimes, when I travel back and forth to my daughter in Maryland, I love to make a stop. I am still waking up each morning thinking about the enchantment of Warwick Furnace Farms. Sarah had a Artist Residency there last week when I visited. She was very welcoming to me, so I could see what she was working on during the week. She had a huge work on the table, that was to be photographed that night. She will be exhibiting the work in September. I am marking my calender to go back. I can't wait. This place is so magical, it is amazing it is only a couple of hours away. I am pretty sure it coincides with when I babysit again in Maryland, too. You can find Sarah's website here. This quote struck me as I was googling cynotype, an artist shared this quote: "Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be." Joseph Campbell There were these large barn doors. And, Sarah opened the first door to where she was working. But, then she pushed open the huge doors to Claire Rosin's studio. I gasped......it was as if I was looking into a dream. I couldn't even take a picture, because I felt like an intruder. Sarah, kept saying as I kept gawking..."you have to meet Claire." And, I did...and I will write about that tommorow.