Tidemarks
       
     
Found objects were used to print photograms onto velvet using the cyanotype method. This traditional photographic process produces a cyan blue print which deepens in intensity under UV light.  
       
     
 The cyanotype process transformed my collected detritus into a watery, prussian blue seascape, a nod to the hurricane which churned them up.
       
     
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Cotton voile panels
       
     
Tidemarks
       
     
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Tidemarks

Installation, 2013

Initiated in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Tidemarks is a multi-media installation which explores ideas of possession and causality.

 

 

Found objects were used to print photograms onto velvet using the cyanotype method. This traditional photographic process produces a cyan blue print which deepens in intensity under UV light.  
       
     
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Found objects were used to print photograms onto velvet using the cyanotype method. This traditional photographic process produces a cyan blue print which deepens in intensity under UV light.

 

 The cyanotype process transformed my collected detritus into a watery, prussian blue seascape, a nod to the hurricane which churned them up.
       
     
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 The cyanotype process transformed my collected detritus into a watery, prussian blue seascape, a nod to the hurricane which churned them up.

tm4.jpg
       
     
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Cotton voile panels
       
     
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Cotton voile panels

In the weeks after the storm I amassed a massive collection of police caution tapes and using cyanotype, transformed them into large scale stripes on panels of cotton voile. Delicate, watery and nuanced, their imprints are a warning of ecological disaster.