inspired by seaweed
Cyanotypes
The beauty of cyanotypes is that they give a size ratio of 1:1 with the object depicted on the work. All the algae, therefore, are the size on the material that they are in real life.
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The algae used are those I find are those thrown up the beach after a storm.
Oar weed and sugar kelp on paper.
180 cm x 53cm
Wakame and bladder wrack on silk, hemmed.
180cm x 50cm.
A little gem of a cyanotype, "Dancing Mouse' is made from a frond of Dulce. 17cm x 12cm.
Three year old Oar weed and horned wrack on cotton, hemmed. 180cm x 53cm
Horned wrack and wire weed growing together sharing a holdfast possibly on a shell.
Laminaria digitata , sargassum, horned wrack and thong weed on silk, hemmed.
180cm x 53cm.
Twin Wakame with horned wrack on silk.
70cm x 53cm.
Thong weed on paper.
180cm x 53cm