I was down at Swansea Print Workshop for an hour or so today, preparing some Bockingford paper with cyanotype chemicals for new work I hope to do this weekend. There was a fair bit of the solution left over and I happened to have some white cotton cloth with me, so I soaked the cloth in the chemicals and laid the pieces out to dry on top of layers of newspaper. When I took the dry cloth off, the newspaper was covered with random patterns of cyanotype solution which immediately started changing colour in the light. I snapped a few digital photos quickly, before they darkened (they’re very dark now). I like them, they’re fun, and I also like that the images are ephemeral and now only exist in the digital world. It was a very happy accident. I don’t know what I’ll do with the images, but they’ll go into the mix and come out at a later date no doubt.
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