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As a photographer I am fascinated by light. In my transition from photographer to printmaker I explore this further through the cyanotype process which creates monochrome prints using chemicals and UV light. I coat sheets of paper with a chemical solution including iron salts, create negatives on clear film, and print by using a UV exposure unit. The prints are then developed in water which is when the magical blue appears. With time the colour deepens to the final almost Prussian blue which the process is associated with.
The photographic images lose some of the detail and sharpness which we associate with modern high resolution digital cameras. Instead through a combination of lucky accidents, brush marks and the chemical process each print produced will have slight variations. Thus, we arrive at individual and unique printed images which, to paraphrase Henry Ford, come in any colour as long as its blue!