Amanda Kessaris (2001) is a Danish/American multidisciplinary artist who uses her pieces as outlets to investigate gender roles, identity, and her experience of being a girl and woman within different cultures and generations. As she studies how her identities flow into one another, Kessaris experimentally investigates how materials have the potential to do the same. Her works examine the possibility of creating fluid boundaries between various artistic mediums. For this exhibition, Kessaris is working experimentally with the cyanotype process to investigate how her sense of self and environment interact with one another.

For the work "One day at a time," Kessaris has been taking a picture of herself every morning throughout the October and November leading up to the exhibition and developing it that same day using cyanotype. The cyanotype process utilizes the UV index in the sun to develop the photo negative on the exposed textile. Signs of the weather on each given day is shown in every cyanotype as a high UV index, often correlated with warmer weather, results in a darker, clearer image, a low UV index with lighter blues, in addition rain affecting the clarity of the image. As you look at the cyanotype calendars, you will see changes in both weather and emotions.

In her other cyanotype series, "Some days and other days" Amanda investigates the varying results of the cyanotype medium determined by exposure time and weather. During the process of developing the same negative in different types of weather and for various amounts of time, it became clear that the instability and unpredictability of the medium mirrors how clearly Kessaris sees herself - some days clearly, and other days vaguely.