Luna Blue by Meg

Passion has a color, and guess again, it’s not red! Cyanotype, the beautiful Prussian-blue medium reawakened my long-buried aptitude for creating Art. 14 years, to be precise. Why Luna? Luna Blue = Blue Moon. Almost exactly a year ago, a puppy glowing like the moon entered our lives. Abandoned by her owners because of a medical condition, rescued by some amazing people, she made her home with us. By then, she’d undergone a couple of name changes. Partly for her glossy blonde fur, partly because of our Potterhead-majority household, she became Luna. She liked her name, too, responding to it immediately. Then, something, somewhere, crystallized and I started making art again, baby steps, with doodles, often under her inscrutable gaze. Then I discovered cyanotypes and got hooked, creating a pile of prints over a summer. Luna would always be waiting outside my art room door, almost tripping me as I carried the materials outside, wet nose in everything. Ergo, Luna Blue. For the Moon Child who made me pursue Art once again.

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