Cyanotype

Year 2 - Elective 1

(3 weeks)

Cyanotype is a photographic emulsion that can be hand painted onto various supports. This project got under way with pinhole camera images. I took a photo of Harvey's caravan through a very basic pinhole camera which led to trying his used paper plates to great effect.

The project is a comment on wind farming and the loss of habitat to local flora and fauna. The final piece was a four place table setting encouraging people to have candlelight dinners as a way to save power.

Sculpture project

The year started in the sculpture department. The brief was to use found materials. I made my way to the local transfer station aka the dump and found a petrol can of interest. The price of oil was in the news as was the concern of the long term fuel crisis.

My work developed into a site specific installation on the tarmac at the art school. The original label on the petrol can was reproduced as a mirror image on the other side and text was replaced with an Arabic proverb. The petrol can was set in a pile of sand with car mirrors in place to allow viewers to read the text in the mirrors.