Following on from my blog about turning the photographs of traces in mud into prints, I have now decided to turn them into cyanotype prints. A process where you need to have two chemicals to turn paper into light sensitive paper or use already made sun-print paper. You then place objects onto the paper and leave it outside in the sun for only a few minutes. When the minutes are up, you wash the chemicals of the paper and you should be left with a white pattern of the object you used, on top of a blue background. A form of camera-less photography.
What I have been doing is placing acetate on top of the photographs and using a black permanent marker pen, colouring any of the shaded areas, where an impression has been made into the mud. When I started this process I was planning on doing dry point etchings but suddenly had this great idea of using cyanotype. I believe this will give a better copy of the marks and so any footprints or what ever else that was left in the mud will be more discernible.
I am now awaiting the arrival of the chemicals, so when they do arrive and I can start this process I will keep this blog updated.
