Through the cyanotype process, Ryn responds to and makes visible internal, intuitive understandings of the self. In the space of process, which includes mark making with cyanotype chemicals, exposure, and rinsing the work, Ryn facilitates a inquiry - based dialogue between her inner self, the “I” and her outer self, the “me.” Through her work, within this space of “seeking to know,” comes what Mead describes as an “organization of the self,” a deliberative, negotiated, placement of what once was and what may come in one’s state of “being.” 

For Ryn, these “knowings,” or decisions arise through movement - driven mark making with cyanotype chemicals. Through these kinetic marks, a figure-like form consistently emerges which subtly shifts in each work. The figure, representing the inner self extending outward, is placed within abstracted contexts or experiences, also made through the artist’s mark. In seeing and being in process with these figures, Ryn inquires not only into the shifts within her “self,” but in her state of well being, asking “are we okay?” Here, Ryn writes corresponding texts which seek to respond to and make known. 

Ryn’s work holds subtle tensions as she makes space for these self - reckonings, for the minute, yet gripping terror of self - development. Her work recognizes the impermanence, a temporal quality, in our means of being. 

Ryn returns to this process with devotion, near obsession. Her repetitive, practiced patterns of mark-making have lent themselves to the development of a signature figure in her work. 

She returns to this practice as she seeks to know, and thus, care for herself.