Recent cyanotype experiments on a larger scale (A2). Taking an unassuming detail from the Minories, a sunken gate lock as a focus, as it is a space of a very small scale, how would that situate in relation to the viewer when exhibited? It is slightly larger than life scale, which gives it presence somehow, and the extended dark line created by masking out with paper breaks the photographic illusion. So that seems effective, and the paper crinkled by the process makes it very physical, especially along with the cyanotype chemical mark-making.
The two versions were made to explore refinements in the application of the stroke to see what happens. It seems that Lock 1′ with the more evident stroke takes on the character of an old photograph as a relic aged and crinkled separating it from the wall somewhat, but Lock 2′ might be better ironed flat again to make it appear to extend into the wall, so it could work in a similar way to the chalk drawings. I will have to return to the Minories to mock it up.
