Blueprint 6 (Vulture)

I am interested in the interplay of light, time and form and I explore this through a variety of different media ranging from photography, drawing and printmaking to painting, audio, performance and installation.

I often work with alternative photographic processes and materials and in my recent series of work “Blueprint Planes” I have been working with the cyanotype process to create a series of prints based on the folded constructions of paper planes. My inspiration to work with origami paper planes came from the idea of a plane catching the light on its wings, as it flies through the air.

I have previously worked with folding blank sheets of paper to create a narrative in the paper before making a drawing. In the “Blueprint Planes” series the fold can be seen to act as a blueprint, a plan for the construction of the plane.

Copies of architectural plans or technical drawings were originally made using the cyanotype photographic process and they were called blueprints. The title of the works refer both to the mode of construction as well as the process of making.