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So, I left the failed origami model in the sun for an hour or two, then opened it and washed it.

Not the best picture as it's still wet. I'll post more about it later.

#cyanotype #blueprint #metamorphogram

@oschene @foldworks @origami

That DNA model reminds me of Spring Into Action (Jeff Beynon). I folded it as a cyanotype #metamorphogram called Spring Sprung. It was a model for several months before becoming this picture.

#origami #cyanotype

Experimenting with pattern layout. A new work about #culturalmemory.

It's made from 84 individual #origami #cyanotype images ( #metamorphogram ).

Combined they make new patterns and represent ideas of shared #memory, particularly of #Portuguese blue tiles ( #azulejos ).

Also, the connections they make show that shared memories are the building blocks of families, communities and cultures.

#blueprint #porto #PortoArt

I'm at the centre for interpretation of vinho verde in Ponte de Lima, Portugal. I'm installing several hundred origami cranes as cyanotype images (#metamorphogram) in the shape of a river - the river Lima, which is about 100m away.
This is just the beginning, so very much a #WIPWednesday post!

#cyanotype #blueprint #origami #cranes #orizuru #senbazuru #PontedeLima

Another version - Six Degrees of Separation - was installed as part of the LOOK Photobiennial 2019.

Refers to role of memory in building individual and cultural relationships.

Accompanied by a wall piece entitled 'Friends and Acquaintances'.

Pay ZERO
But at least it was a public-funded gallery, and we had a good, supportive long-term relationship afterward

#cyanotype #origami #metamorphogram #installation #artinstallation #blueprint

How fast can you fold orizuru?

I am making an installation which will use about 500-700 orizuru. Each is made from cyanotype coated tissue paper or rice paper. After a while they turn into pictures. They are #metamorphogram images. They will be hung in this form.

This is not a good origami paper, so I'm going at 20-30 per hour!

#Cyanotype #blueprint #sunprint #metamorphogram #porto #portoart #portoartist #cameraless #cameralessphotography

Some more cyanotypes from the last few days. It's not been sunny, but enough UV light gets through the clouds to drive the reaction.

Having said that, some of these exposures run into days...

#cyanotype
#blueprint
#origami
#metamorphogram
#memory
#PhilosophyOfMemory #reeds #waves #longexposure #abstract #cameraless #cameralessPhotography

I have been back making cyanotypes.

Each of of these cyanotypes is a literal memory (as defined by my first philosophy of memory publication!).

Artist life has been hard lately. No change there, really, but it helps to make things.

#cyanotype #blueprint #origami #metamorphogram #memory #PhilosophyOfMemory #orizuru

A little toot on my own trumpet...

The 10 images in the series 'The Scar Is Not The Memory' will be for sale as part of the 12x12 Festival in Lisbon, 7-10 December.

Everything in the festival is just €25 each.

There will be an online catalogue available shortly.

Find 12x12 on Insta here: https://www.instagram.com/1_2_x_1_2/

See a reel of all the series here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzlUxgxI0MG/

Thank you!

#cyanotype #metamorphogram #blueprint #scar #memory #philosophy #philosophyofmemory #lisboa #porto

More of the series 'The Scar Is not The Memory'

Cyanotype on watercolour paper with silk stitching.

#metamorphogram
#origami
#blueprint
#cyanotype
#memory
#philosophy
#philosophyofmemory
#redthread
#scar
#VisibleMending
#octagon #triangle #squares #geometric #orizuru

The Scar Is Not The Memory. Metamorphogram, silk thread.

First in a series.

Unfolding origami, folds remain, like scars gained in the process.

But a scar is a mnemonic, not a memory.

Here, the memory (cyanotype + origami = metamorphogram; a visible memory) and scars overlap.

Sometimes, the process of becoming is so tough that stitches are needed to repair the damage.

#metamorphogram #origami #blueprint #cyanotype #memory #philosophy #philosophyofmemory #redthread #scar #VisibleMending

My piece for the Mnemosyne show at gallery AL859 in Porto.

The 2nd picture shows how it was exposed - as an origami cyanotype made of 30 individual pieces.

The 3rd picture shows all the developed individual images opened out.

The exhibited composition reflects how our unique experiences of the same event come together to give us a new, shared, social memory.

#cyanotype #metamorphogram #origami #ModularOrigami #memory #mnemosyne #al859 #porto #portoartist #socialmemory

This is 'crumple' origami. Used a lot by French origamists 'Le CRIMP'.

Thin, crisp paper (here tracing paper) is folded and then crushed. The process allows the paper to be shaped into flexible, organic forms.

This paper was coated in cyanotype. The form I made was exposed in the sun for 10 minutes, and developed.

If I hadn't put my fingers through the wet paper it would be good!

#cyanotype #origami #blueprint #metamorphogram #sunprint #ArtFail #doh #crumpleform #CrumpledPaper #LeCrimp

I've been interviewed about my background, process, cyanotypes, origami, memory and more.

You can watch it here (18 mins):
https://youtu.be/1V7hR8fEvnA

(Disclosure: Subcultours facilitate artist workshops, and invited me to join them)

I hate being in front of the camera, so this is a rare occurrence. And... is there anyone out there who likes the sound of their own voice?

#cyanotype #blueprint #origami #metamorphogram #memory #philosophy #philosophyOfMemory #artistinterview #selfconscious

This is the 'Spreading Hexagons' tessellation, by Eric Gjerde.

I folded it from 200gsm watercolour paper coated with cyanotype chemicals.

It sat outside almost five days.

Long exposure pushes cyanotype blue into a golden-greenish blue instead.

I like how the edges of the folds have described a multiplicity of hexagons.

Origami is cool.

#blueprint #cyanotype #hexagon #EricGjerde #metamorphogram #origami #tessellation #origamitessellation #tessellated #curiosity #justcurious

Sometimes you make things for sheer curiosity.

I've been trying tessellated origami forms for a while. This one is appealing as it is easy to fold and fun to play with.

I folded it from a sheet of watercolour paper coated with cyanotype.

It went outside for a day or so.

When developed, it looked like the final picture.

So now I know. Curiosity sated. Until next time.

#blueprint #cyanotype #metamorphogram #origami #tessellation #origamitessellation #tessellated #curiosity #justcurious

Here's what a collage of all 30 units looks like.

#cyanotype #blueprint #blueprints #origami #metamorphogram #geometricart #collage #helpmedecide #rotationalsymmetry #reflectivesymmetry #modularorigami #portoart #portoartist #composition

Four potential compositions for the 30 cyanotypes that used to be a single origami form.

Should they become a collage or... revert to form?

Let me know which one works for you.

#cyanotype #blueprint #blueprints #origami #metamorphogram #geometricart #collage #helpmedecide #rotationalsymmetry #reflectivesymmetry #modularorigami #portoart #portoartist #composition

Took the 30-unit modular origami apart and developed all the pieces into 30 similar but unique images.

30 objects which had exactly the same preparation, exactly the same form, became part of the same 'community' in the same place for the same time.

And yet, each perception differs slightly, each memory is the consequence of individual experience within that group.

But now, what?

#cyanotype #blueprint #origami #metamorphogram #unique #memory #philosophy #PhilosophyOfMemory #perception

30 Views of a June Day - work in progress.

Cyanotype-coated watercolour paper made 30 'turtle' units for this model.

It was left outside for 24 hours. It's now going to be developed and... possibly collaged or reconstructed.

Exploring ideas about how we each have unique memories of a shared experience. Variables, in this case, include our point of view and our interactions with others.

#cyanotype #origami #metamorphogram #modularorigami #blueprint #philosophy #memory #cameralessphotography

The other two metamorphograms, now finished.

First was an argonaut, second a segmented shell, both designs by Japanese origami artist #TomokoFuse

I have plans for them, exploring the philosophical idea of vicarious memories. I.e. when we 'remember' our parent's early life, because they repeatedly told us about it.

#metamorphogram #cyanotype #blueprint #origami #PaperFolding #Abstract #Chaotic #chaoticart #LongExposure #Philosophy #Memory #Geometric #Angular #Shell

The metamorphograms from a little while ago are done. They were exposed for about 4 days.

This one was the maple leaf. There are at least four distinct layers in shades of blue.

My poor folding of the stalk of the leaf is shown in all it's chaotic glory!

#metamorphogram #cyanotype #blueprint #origami #mapleLeaf #PaperFolding #Memory #Abstract #Chaotic #chaoticart #LongExposure

@Armavica That's a great model.
I made a version a few years ago, from cyanotype-coated paper.
When opened, after several weeks, this is what it looked like...

http://alunkirby.com/2d-works/metamorphogram/spring-sprung-basho/

#cyanotype #blueprint #origami #SpringSprung #metamorphogram

Started some #metamorphogram (cyanotype mixed with origami) images.

Folded from archival tissue paper, which results in poor origami, but the image will be what I need.

Maple leaf, by Peter Engel. Argonaut and Flat Shell w/10 segments by Tomoko Fuse.

Exposing for... a while... in a contact frame.

Ably assisted by Border Collie.

#cyanotype #blueprint #origami #TomokoFuse #Argonaut #Shell #ContactPrint #ContactFrame #BorderCollie #MapleLeaf #PaperFolding #TissuePaper #LongExposure

And finally, because we've used coloured threads for the sashiko on the front...

...and have stitched through the batting and backing...

we get a series of beautiful patterns on the rear of the quilt as well.

This was a lovely collaborative project. I hope to do more quilting soon.

THREAD 9/9

#origami #cyanotype #stitchcraft #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko
#CameralessPhotography

The sashiko stitching adds so much beautiful detail.

It draws the eye to new patterns within the whole, and links sections through (here it comes...) a common thread.

Tessa Layzelle, textile artist, take a bow.

https://www.instagram.com/tessa__layzelle/

THREAD 8/x

#origami #cyanotype #stitchcraft #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko
#CameralessPhotography

Using your sewing skills (or, in this case, with the collaboration of someone far more skilled than myself), the 9 cyanotype panels were joined together.

Cotton batting and a white rear panel were tacked in place.

To join the front and rear, lines of the pattern were picked out in hand-stiched sashiko...

THREAD 7/x

#origami #cyanotype #transparent #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko
#CameralessPhotography

As I've shown previously, you can also use cyanotype to custom dye some thread.

For this quilt, we used a mix of plain white, speckled blue, and full blue threads.

THREAD 6/x

#origami #cyanotype #transparent #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko
#CameralessPhotography

After you've exposed the print, wash the fabric well.

You get (somewhat obviously) a negative version - or should that be a positive version? - of the original cyanotype.

Now, repeat until you have the required number of printed fabric pieces.

Two prints shown here.

I used 9 for a 3x3 quilt.

THREAD 5/x

#origami #cyanotype #transparent #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko
#CameralessPhotography

Now all you need is some cyanotype coated fabric.

I used squares of cotton cut slightly larger than the image. This gives room for seams.

Put the negative on the fabric, squeeze everything together (I used a contact frame) and expose in the sun.

THREAD 4/x

#origami #cyanotype #transparent #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko #CameralessPhotography