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**Alun Kirby** @cyanotype@zirk.us · Mar 19

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

A cyanotype which looks like an explosion of shards of light in a blue darkness. It is random sharp shapes, lots of triangles, lots of overlaps. The central area is whiter / lighter, with deeper blue pieces more abundant towards the edges

This was the origami 'waves' model by Engel, folded from cyanotype coated rice paper. It has a lot of layers, so the top layer gets darkest blue, and by the fourth layer the paper is white. But because of the complexity of the folding, the image is an abstract composition, perhaps 60% white with random areas of random shaped blue all over. The crease lines are also visible

A small cyanotype, about 10 x 6 cm in real life. It used leaves of a water reed as the subject. There are 4 sections of reed, three of which extend past the edge of the image. Those at left and right show blue lines of detail of the veins of the leaves. Second left is essentially a white stripe. The final leaf only extends halfway, is white, and looks like a slightly curving horn. The background is almost a denim blue with a slight green tint

Cyanotype of 7 reed leaves arranged in a naturalistic fashion. They are predominantly white against a green-brown background with also shows hints of blue. The leaves and arrangement could remind you of horns, long crab claws, swords...

**Alun Kirby** @cyanotype@zirk.us · Dec 17, 2022

Dec 17, 2022

Alun Kirby @cyanotype@zirk.us

This was an exercise in creating a background on which to print an image.

I put the paper on the floor, and dripped chemicals on it until I was happy.

Once it was dry, I made an image of some Nigella (Love-in-a-mist) on it.

I do love the creative flexibility that using raw chemicals gives you in printing cyanotypes.

Lots of splatters of blue, more or less joined together in an abstract conglomeration which looks spiky and explosive. Within the splatters, the delicate white shape of nigella stems and flower heads emerge. Their pointed fronds echo the spikes of the splatters

#cyanotype #blueprint #nigella

**Alun Kirby** @cyanotype@zirk.us · Nov 15, 2022

Nov 15, 2022

Alun Kirby @cyanotype@zirk.us

A while ago I got involved with some academic philosophers, studying Philosophy of Memory.

I'd been working on the idea of whether a photograph could ever be defined as a memory.

Somehow, my artistic explorations ended up as a peer-reviewed paper

The title comes from a @GreatDismal documentary. I was inspired by Gibson's book of essays, 'Distrust That Particular Flavour'. Particularly 'Dead Man Sings'.

#memory #photography #philosophy #cameraless #nomaps

https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/estudios_de_filosofia/article/view/345847/20805902

revistas.udea.edu.coView of No maps for these territories: exploring philosophy of memory through photography

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