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photosandplantsAugust 27, 2020September 15, 2020Uncategorized

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Making the most of the sun with some long exposure cyanotypes to document the veins on my geranium leaves ☀️

Sputnik seedhead 🛸

Thames project stage 10: This is the final stage of this section of my project (I’m planning on continuing it to become a much bigger body of work). I decided I wanted to present this final set of images as book, it was important to me that the viewer could hold the book in their hands and experience the tactility of it. I used some of the seabeet that I'd collected from the site to create a dye which I then used to dye fabric to create backcloths for the covers. The book itself is a concertina which begins with text detailing the date, time and tidal conditions which the photos were taken and also the materials used to develop and fix the film. This is followed by the images, which I rephotographed digitally to best show both the image itself and the matter on the surface, presented in the order that I took them as I walked along the Thames path. The viewer therefore experiences the stretch of river in the same order which I did. Although the images themselves have been reproduced digitally it was important to me that matter from the location is still present in the book which I why used seabeet to dye the backcloths. I didn't rinse these so that the maximum amount of matter would remain and the dye would leave its own tidemarks on the covers. This handmade artist's book has been made in an edition of three and I'll be entering one of the editions into exhibitions.

Thames project stage 9: Some of the images from the final set I created for this section of my project, taken on 21st April at low tide around 2.30pm, developed on 22nd April using seabeet and Thames river water collected from the site, unrinsed so that the matter from the site would remain on the surface of the film.

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