Christi Wiltenburg
Things to check out!
Old yet not forgotten work
My college thesis work, recently refound and re-edited. Very excited to have found it again. Gum Bichromate prints
My name is Christi Wiltenburg
I am a fine artist photographer and historic photographic printmaker.
I was born in Michigan to Mary Christi Wiltenburg. She was a crafty little angel always trying to help others. She loved children, she loved animals, she loved taking pictures of everyone and every place though I don't remember her ever calling herself a photographer. As I got older and looked through her pictures after her passing, I realized my composition and eye was far more influenced by her than I ever realized. She instilled me in the love of craft and being a crafter, making things with my hands. And I live for her everyday.
I lived a busy life of that of an only child with her single mother, carting me around everywhere with her and getting me into extracurricular activities that could act as baby sitting while she worked to get off early everyday. We lived in the country, on 48 acres of land. I was warrior princess in the back forty once I was old enough to stay home alone. I went to several different schools growing up, whichever district my mom could take me to that had an after or morning care. Private and public.
I went to college at Grand Valley State University and kind of fell into photography by familiarity. That path led me to New Mexico and historic photographic processes after an Internship with Bostick & Sullivan. I worked for them for 5 years after graduating, went back into serving for a little bit before managing a cannabis dispensary in Albuquerque for over a year. Currently am now working into being a full time Artist.
A lot of my work deals with my process of grief and the things I wish I could still show my mother. She passed away in 2018 of a heart attack unexpectedly right before a planned trip to visit me. Photography was something we shared together and was my creative release at the height of my pain. Check out my instagram project @ayearinlifewithoutyou and my most recent work, The things I wanted to show you.
My most recent series is the things I wanted to show you, 2021, a series of Na2 platinum palladium prints, cyanotype, and combo cyanotype over Na2 platinum palladium.
