Cyanotypes

This series explores the natural world in a subtle and hidden state. Carl Sagan once talked about how one might go about representing a three-dimensional apple in a two-dimensional space. He demonstrated one possibility by dipping the bottom of an apple in ink and then placing it onto a sheet of paper. When he removed the apple, the stamp which was left visible on the paper was nothing more than four oddly shaped circles; nothing like what one would typically imagine an apple to look like. It was nonetheless one version of an apple as represented in two dimensions.

Similarly, my goal with this series is to examine how simple objects may reveal more obscured versions of themselves; for these versions exist in multitudes throughout the dimensionality of space. The extension of one object’s identity into another dimension reminds us of the translation from one language to another, from one world to another. The artifact that remains once the ultraviolet processing is completed, in contrast to the blue stain, looks like a shadow but has also a quality of light.