Cyanotypes
These cyanotypes (photograms) are a hybrid of photography, painting, sculpture, collage, digital construction, weather work (use of sunlight) and ikebana.
The first one on the left is a genetically modified bouquet, a handmade jpeg of a flower arrangement…
Time is also spliced in these works, the 18th and 21st centuries. A camera-less photographic technique from 1842 (which uses the sun to expose the image) is used along with digital and biotech strategies (splicing) to create the image. Discrete visual genes from within the work, along with pictorial DNA from separately created works, are spliced together to create something new.
Though the works arrive at a fixed state after the splicing, they remain open-ended — the same limited set of discrete parts could have produced infinite possible arrangements, from barely altered to radical disrupted.
Larger works in progress are on wood (and other materials) are more architectural in scale (96”), see mockup.
Two framed works below are spliced across each other, each with metallic leafing. The original image for those works comes from a photo of a large ephemeral ash/snow installation done on a lakebed using found flora (to create a wind, rather than sun, based photogram). Another work is on shaped mylar.
The series in ongoing and evolving…
