Meghann Riepenhoff creates her camera-less cyanotypes in collaboration with the landscape and the ocean, at the edges of both. The artist coats paper with homemade cyanotype emulsion, and drapes them along the shore. As they make direct contact with the photographic materials, rain, waves, wind, and sediment leave physical inscriptions on paper, creating complex, azure surfaces.

Works from Riepenhoff's Littoral Drift series — a geologic term describing the action of wind-driven waves transporting sand and gravel — are evocative of the landscapes in which they were made. Weather patterns, tide and current, and the chemical makeup of water inform the resulting works, so that each cyanotype is a portrait of the natural world that is both literal and abstract, and wholly unique.