Project Statement
This is a cyanotype developed through a workflow of Film photography, developed and scanned into photoshop, which was then printed onto two transparency sheets that were then stitched together, and processed into a cyanotype coated watercolor paper. The final composition’s concept was to show a landscape in an abstract way, the bottom half of the image represents earth, with the person, the brain, skull, and blurred car lights, while the top half was to represent the sky, with the clouds, plane schematic, and negative space. The text is from an Alan Watts lecture that deals with being a part of the universe as a whole and being a wave amongst the ocean. The needle used to sew the transparencies together was left on the page during the print to further show the multimedia nature of this final piece.
Reflection
This piece was blast to make and took a ton of work to get the final result, as it took so many steps in so many different mediums. I made it my senior year of high school and it ended up in a regional competition for high school art which I was very proud of. Because of the final medium, the color has degraded over the years but it still retains the aspects and detail of the image, I wish there was some way I knew about to better preserve my print to keep the contrast high. Other than that this is still one of my favorite pieces to come out of my high school art career and I think it demonstrates a lot of different abilities that can be used in a variety of circumstances.