When Love Breaks Down.

Sibling image to 'Absence Makes The Heart Lose Weight (Yeah)'

Exposed for about a week in late summer.

I used a custom-made contact frame of 70 x 50 cm to hold everything in place for so long.

Even after a week, some leaves have let no UV light through.

Title from a Prefab Sprout song. https://youtu.be/fMYbD7kK7fI

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Absence Makes The Heart Lose Weight (Yeah).

One of the first cyanotypes where I realized I could get colours other than blue, without toning, bleaching or other post-processing.

This is a big leaf, I forget the plant name now. The image is about 60 cm tall.

It's named after a Prefab Sprout lyric, from When Love Breaks Down.

During exposure, the leaf loses water and shrinks a little, seen this best at the edges.

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