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Publication Date
Winter 1-1-2017
Description
Printing History Award
Keywords
artists' books, cyanotypes, blueprints, photography, student artists' book contest, fourth
Disciplines
Book and Paper
Student Status
Undergraduate student
Year of Graduation
2020
Major
Photography
Faculty / Course
Anna Strickland, Antique and Alternative Processes
Materials + Techniques
Cyanotypes, walnut, beeswax, hemp twine
Student Narrative
Process is a conscious and integral component of my creative practice. Ideas and iterations are constantly being generated, and a natural byproduct of this is having many more creative concepts than I will ever have time to fully pursue. I created this book to function as a repository or reliquary in which unrealized ideas could exist in a more intentional space. Each cyanotype included acts as a container for a specific idea that I had this fall, ideas that were never actualized. Originally represented as drawings or text on trace paper, these were then folded/compressed to make contact print exposures. The obscuration of their original content creates a loose visual mnemonic, providing distance to rediscover and reimagine the ideas they represent.
Photo Credit
Mariah Bennett, MDes Interior Architecture, 2018
Recommended Citation
Morehead, Travis; Library, Fleet; and Collections, Special, "Sometimes the Thing You Want Bleeds in the Light" (2017). 4th Student Artists' Book Contest 2018. 22.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_bookcontest4th2018/22