Sunprint

Recent sunny days have been favourable for making cyanotypes. The process has been working really well on cloth and some of the papers as well. The image shows some of them hanging up to dry. I have applied some of the same images that I was using for cyanotypes to screenprinting on a course in Belfast Print Workshops at the weekend and that was very productive and exciting. I've laid them out in lines on blank newsprint and they are stretching across the Artspace floor. It makes me determined to produce some kind of book from this residency experience that can encapsulate my recurring obsessions. I have an amazing little 19th century photo album on loan from the Museum and have been looking at the format and binding and trying to figure out how to apply that format to my work or vice versa. Everything seems to be coming back to one of the original inspirations for the residency -Anna Atkins, who created the first photographic book using cyanotypes.
Can I put something together from the host of images I have been gathering...? I hope so.