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The Indigo Collection is created through a process known as cyanotype. Derived from Greek meaning “dark blue impression," cyanotype is a photographic process rooted in light and time. A light-sensitive solution is brushed onto paper or cloth, where an image slowly emerges through exposure to ultraviolet light.
About C. Petaja
Chelsea came to love the practice of cyanotype when searching for a new form of expression: one that embraced the unpredictable nature of working with the impermanent.
She resides in Nashville, TN with her photographer husband and two young daughters.
Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the weight of facts
and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.
I want to believe I am looking
into the white fire of a great mystery.
I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing—
that the light is everything—that it is more than the sum
of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do.
— MARY OLIVER
![2025 Q4 - The last bit was full of new things (cyanotypes, learning to ride a bike, lice [!], saying goodbye to Granny’s house) and lots of the same (girlhood, seasons, and the fact that all this newness is part of the same). 💫](https://scontent-den2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/615988730_18556026523004133_4332389856635143659_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_tt6&_nc_cat=106&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=18de74&efg=eyJlZmdfdGFnIjoiQ0FST1VTRUxfSVRFTS5iZXN0X2ltYWdlX3VybGdlbi5DMyJ9&_nc_ohc=a0LtjTHZT-MQ7kNvwHDeXNw&_nc_oc=AdpS8iYoCaTkMSXVJz9j1z4h8-SGtNi2xj3K-ZaWBOmk24Pr5wvvuNH1xUK56f4z8dE&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-den2-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&_nc_gid=k_sN0ELMl3ORrWLKUQLUOg&_nc_tpa=Q5bMBQGIEQFyXWkoKlFv7ZFJ5-1Jic_wV_UkJL0-FbvZnl4dXTok2dlwEt7LSZinqMw1gk3OIBR0_GAu&oh=00_Af4QR0f6-vQOdIDWiOdjyjW4m39O53S0v9TMANaWEBqVMA&oe=6A13C381)
