John Terby’s roses
Make A Thing Everyday, 2021-06-26
John Terby’s roses
Make A Thing Everyday, 2021-06-26
Weed Only cyanotype print series is a collection of weed prints. To start I have photographed every flower in my neighborhood. Further I am starting to even memorize what time of year they bloom. In an attempt to avoid boredom I am collecting and printing weeds. In fact I am using the actual weeds as a negative.
I learned how to make cyanotypes from Greg Rager and more recently Tony Maher
A film photograph with flash of skateboarder Felicia Gibbs
After a year of being indoors, I felt isolated. One day the sky beckoned me to step outside. The way the light hit the clouds overwhelmed me with comfort. I hadn’t felt that in a long time. In the hope that I could share this comfort with my friends I asked them to text me a picture of their sky.
The pictures poured in, if you look deeper you realize each picture contained an extremely personal story of my friends (the photographers). At first glance these cyanotypes represent beauty. More important they represent trust between my friends and I. My friends didn’t question my text, instead they sent this non-verbal form of communication – the picture.
I printed the photos using the cyanotype process because the only thing that looks normal in cyanotype is the sky and the clouds. Similarly, during isolation, the only thing that looks normal is the sky outside our windows. In the end, The Blue Sky Collection brought comfort to my friends and I. I hope it does the same for you. We all live under the same sky.