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Abstraction and memory.

Scraps of cyanotype coated tissue paper - forgotten parts of other works - laid out in up to 6 layers as 'negatives'.

Sun reveals the constructed image. It reminds me of [ ].

And you?

It's a strange creative process.

Like searching for the memory of something you had forgotten that you remembered.

#cyanotype #blueprint #scraps #AbstractArt #memory #forgotten #remembered #layers #ArtisticProcess #sunprint #PaperNegatives #TissuePaper #PhilosophyOfMemory

When coating with cyanotype there are often brush-marked edges I choose to remove.

Today I'm using these edge strips, from watercolour paper, to make a composite background.

I'm then using multiple layers of tissue paper edges to make an abstract 'paper negative'.

This is all held in a contact frame to expose for several days. Maybe a week.

#cyanotype #blueprint #sunprint #memory #philosophy #abstract #collage #LongExposure #ContactPrint #ContactFrame #TissuePaper

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

You can use tissue paper cyanotypes as paper negatives to print from.

You can also speed up the exposure time a little by doing what Victorian photographers used to do with their paper negatives.

You can oil it.

This gives it a bit more transparency, as you can ... ahem... clearly see.

THREAD 3/x

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

After exposure, development and drying, the image becomes a 'metamorphogram', a cyanotype which was exposed in one form but visualised as another.

Metamorphograms are both subject and object. It takes a picture of itself as a tato. Unfolding reveals that picture.

Layers in the paper become shades of blue and white

THREAD 2/x

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

Here's how I made a quilt, using cyanotype paper negatives to print the fabric, in collaboration with tetxile artist Tessa Layzelle (on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tessa__layzelle/)

It all started with a Tato - an origami 'purse' folded from cyanotype-coated archival tissue paper.

THREAD 1/x

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