Making a sort of cyanotype that equates to memory let me treat each image as an individual.

I've used these ones (which were origami cranes) to explore how we can share our individual memories to create social and cultural structures.

Through shared experience, shared memory, we connect with others.

We can influence these shared memories.

They in turn influence our personal memories.

'Sociobiographic memory' perhaps.

#cyanotype #memory #metamorphogram #origami #orizuru #CulturalMemory

'Cliques & Networks'

Some of my >750 orizuru images have been made into other works.

The main (dotty) picture is made from 81 individuals.

Experiences and memories make each of us unique (like orizuru).

We build connections with others through shared social, cultural and autobiographical memories.

We see the orizuru create local 'cliques' (dots) and extended 'networks' (lines), where their different memories interact.

#cyanotype #metamorphogram #orizuru #origami #philosophy #memory

Imagine a piece of tissue paper.

Coat it with cyanotype chemicals.

Fold it into an origami crane.

Let it be a crane for a while, in any place with a bit of light. Ignore it, play with it, whatever.

After a while, unfold it. Develop.

You'll get an image.

The image is the memory of it's experience as an origami crane.

Repeat. Every crane's experience - and hence every image - will be unique.

Here's 4 out of the >750 I've made so far.

#blueprint #origami #orizuru #metamorphogram #memory