inspired by seaweed
Photographs
I photograph aspects of seaweeds that interest me: either the whole or the arranged parts of the plant. Since I discovered the mark making of Guido Strazza, that too has piqued my imagination so I experiment with that abstracted form.
Two woven electron microscope images of Anna's hair and laminaria blade printed on vellum paper.
An image of wakame drying made with a phone microscope.
Repeated images of plaited thong weed placed randomly on an inked plate make up this example of wall paper.
Overlapping shadows of dried dulse.
A furbelows on the beach.
Laminaria digitata washed up after a storm.
Red wire weed after a storm.
Papery fan weed.
Dilsea carnosa - red rags
Wakame drying in the sun.
Photo gravure of my electron microscope image of a laminaria holdfast.
Photo gravure of a digital photo of oar weed with letter press printing.
Photo gravure of mark making from frontage of dried laminaria using black ink on tissue paper.
