With a background in fine art and biology, Queens, NY artist G.R. Stanger found traditional photography to be the ideal intersection between art and science. In recent years he moved away from the camera, negative, and print; choosing to work with only light sensitive photographic emulsion. Without representing the outside world, Stanger’s imagery abandons photography’s conventional role of documentation. Instead his work focuses in on form, light, and time; exploring a broader, more abstract truth. Stanger’s cyanotype-based artworks on folded paper are built up through multiple layers of emulsions, exposures, and processings. The creases in the paper act a structural template on which the emulsion is applied in repetitive patterns and fields. The cumulative effect of the layers of Prussian blue emulsion and the play of light and shadow on the folded surface of the paper create illusionary effects that oscillate between order and disorder.