Seawater
This project began as a simple experiment: making cyanotypes at the Jersey Shore using materials gathered from the beach.
Shells, seaweed, sand, and other fragments were placed directly onto cyanotype-coated paper and exposed in the summer sun. The prints were then developed in seawater and allowed to continue changing through their interaction with water and light.
What began as a straightforward photographic process became something less predictable. Exposure and time in the seawater produced shifts from blue into green, yellow, and gold, with each print recording its own combination of exposure, chemistry, and chance.
The resulting images sit somewhere between photograph, object, and experiment.
Seabug #2
