More experiments with cyanotype exploring the formal structuring of an upright line on a portrait format. I thought that the Lock image had a certain presence and potential, so I created this piece with the working title, Passage in One Stroke.
It works to some extent, but I think it might work more successfully on an extended scale relating to the real passage scale, as it would relate more directly to the viewer. The brushstroke could be over 2M high and the scale of the distant opening at the end would occupy a position in relation to the full height of the cyanotype mark. I will try that, perhaps on a wallpaper roll to relate to interiors, or maybe not, it could be too much reference.
The second experiment here explores the cyanotype mark as a gestural. painterly mark as part of image making in relation to painting. I started the project with this premise but here the idea seems lost.
So I reworked the mark in Opening with Gestural Stroke to assert a more painterly contrast to the photographic content, which works better. Perhaps echoes of Abstract Expressionism permeate this one, and maybe that’s the way to go? A clear contrast with a reference point? In any case I will go back to the drawing board, pun intended, as I have some more ideas.
