BioCyan

BioCyan is the series I created for the MA of Art and Science which consisted of multiple bioplastic cyanotype prints, created from a unique personally developed process. As well as an A5 booklet depicting the process and findings. UAL Graduate Showcase link: https://graduateshowcase.arts.ac.uk/projects/239383/cover 'BioCyan is the physical intervention of photography by redefining what the physical possibility of the printed image can be. The irregularity of the perfect imperfection in shape, texture, and size of my bioplastic cyanotypes with my sand and sea images create, with a sense of symbiosis, a photographic object that is a depiction of its process. BioCyan is researching bioplastic’s, combined with cyanotype, inspired by the early history of alternative photography. Using algae based bioplastics in homage to Anna Atkins, and her seminal work ‘Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions’. BioCyan is a critique of the canon of the history of photography, and alternative process photography’s place within it. Starting in a kitchen and ending in a bedroom during the isolation of the pandemic, my unique bioplastic cyanotype process and resulting BioCyan series is a reflection of my personal journey through my artistic hand.'