Meghann RIEPENHOFF is an American artist who creates large-format, camera-less cyanotypes by placing chemically treated paper in natural settings—shorelines, snowfields, rivers—where light, wind, and water interact directly with the surface. Her method becomes a collaboration with nature, generating fluid, ever-changing patterns that speak to impermanence and our ties to the environment.
Waters of the Americas: US Geological Survey #410401112134801, Record Low Water Level, 4192’, Antelope Island Causeway B (Great Salt Lake, UT, 8.28.18) (2018) Produced during a period of severe drought, this piece was made along the shrinking edges of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, now fragmented by a railroad causeway. As part of her Waters of the Americas series, the cyanotype registers a brief moment in the Anthropocene, where the lake’s retreat reveals the imprint of human interference.
