Since finishing my a-n bursary I have continued to experiment with making cyanotypes and toning with plants.
A selection of my 'holding resilience' series is now available to purchase directly from my shop as part of the Artist Support Pledge.
They are made on the back of old wallpaper, sized A4. There is a selection of untoned prints and prints toned with Barley Grass. The Barley Grass has shifted the usual blue colour towards green.
Each cyanotype is a unique variation and includes marks from the wallpaper it is printed on, and hints of the wallpaper pattern behind.
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The plant I am holding is a Cow Parsley.
The Cow Parsley grew up through my interactive installation 'how did we become so resilient' - installed at Phytology: Bethnal Green Nature Reserve while I was in residency. The installation was an interspecies conversation that started with me weaving this question into the netting of a found plastic sack.
To install the work I cleared a patch of ivy – a resilient plant. The Cow Parsley replied, as did more ivy - more resilience.
I’ve been stuck on the word resilience since the beginning of the pandemic. How much resilience do we have in the face of our experienced personal and collective traumas? Is all this resilience a good thing?
The cyanotypes are printed on discarded wallpaper - and hints of the original pattern can be seen, echoing the grid of the original installation.
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