Abstract Mini Portrait #17, 4.5 × 4.5 inches, 2026. Cyanotype, soft pastel, upcycled leather scraps, oil pigment sticks, on Stonehenge paper

Abstract Mini Portraits

An exploration of the relationship between cyanotype printing and soft pastels

By Josie Love Roebuck

The longing for a tactile experience

Something as simple as a

Dance

A gesture

or

Even an expressive mark

A tool that dances between a

A fleeting moment

or

being stitched into

permanence

They are said to be

polar opposites

but yet

they both yield the uniqueness

of drawing

Gesturing together both

fragility and resilience

and

stitching together a vibrant

Story