Alun Kirby · @cyanotype
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When coating with cyanotype there are often brush-marked edges I choose to remove.

Today I'm using these edge strips, from watercolour paper, to make a composite background.

I'm then using multiple layers of tissue paper edges to make an abstract 'paper negative'.

This is all held in a contact frame to expose for several days. Maybe a week.

#cyanotype #blueprint #sunprint #memory #philosophy #abstract #collage #longexposure #contactprint #contactframe #tissuepaper

Last updated 1 year ago

Alun Kirby · @cyanotype
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Started some (cyanotype mixed with origami) images.

Folded from archival tissue paper, which results in poor origami, but the image will be what I need.

Maple leaf, by Peter Engel. Argonaut and Flat Shell w/10 segments by Tomoko Fuse.

Exposing for... a while... in a contact frame.

Ably assisted by Border Collie.

#metamorphogram #cyanotype #blueprint #origami #tomokofuse #argonaut #shell #contactprint #contactframe #bordercollie #mapleleaf #paperfolding #tissuepaper #longexposure

Last updated 1 year ago

Alun Kirby · @cyanotype
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A transformation in cyanotype.

It begins as a very simple origami box with a couple of coins in it.

And end up as an abstract geometric image.

A memory of it's brief time as a coin box, written there in blue and white.

#cyanotype #blueprint #origami #metamorphogram #memory #pennies #transformation #tissuepaper

Last updated 2 years ago