Historic Process, Expanded palette
I am drawn to cyanotype for the direct relationship it creates between light, time, chemistry, and material. Although the process is traditionally associated with deep blue, I also apply the solution to red paper, where the image emerges in a striking combination of red and black.
Changing the colour of the paper transforms the atmosphere of the print. The familiar calm of blue gives way to greater contrast, intensity, and tension, allowing the same process to carry a very different emotional weight.
In these works, the photograph becomes a physical imprint. Forms emerge, fade, and shift; silhouettes become traces. Each print balances preparation with uncertainty and carries the individual marks of its surface and process.
