These memories can become altered, like an image that has been photocopied several times. The image loses details, but also gains new ones from the unique flaws of each copy machine.
The image ‘496-Green’ is part of The Memories Series where I take old photographs, postcards and written notes and create cyanotypes and digital artwork.
I made a negative by scanning the old photograph and postcard, and creating a composition of these in a graphics editor. I placed this negative on top of paper treated with light sensitive chemicals. Exposing the paper to UV light, the cyanotype paper turns from yellow to a blue grey. The paper will stay lighter where it has not been exposed to the UV light. Find out more about this process at my post Catching the sun- creating my cyanotype prints.
After washing the cyanotype in water the image is blue. The image is then scanned and digital layers of drawing and colours are added.
