Visualizing Time through Cyanotypes (2023)
A mini exhibition that brings together a personal exploration of cyanotypes and how it visualizes the invisible notion of time in relation to the physicality of the materials around us.
Sir John Herschel, a brilliant mathematician, astronomer, chemist, invented cyanotype printing as a way to make copies of his notes and diagrams. Anna Atkins used the method to produce what is then known as the first photographic illustrated book which became a key step in the history of scientific illustration. Fascinated with its historical relevance with the art and sciences, I started experimenting with cyanotypes in my first year of university.
This mini exhibition brings together a personal exploration of cyanotypes and how it visualizes the invisible notion of time in relation to the physicality of the materials around us.
About the process
Cyanotypes, also known as the blue print process, is one of
the oldest photographic printing processes in photography.
By exposing a material surface coated in light sensitive chemical to the sun’s UV rays with objects or negative prints arranged to block parts of the surface, these beautifully created sun prints come about.
