These are in progress images and motion loops from the project. I’m in the process of making a cyanotype film out of combined stills and sequences that take place in the natural environment. My process involves hand printing cyanotype film frames and reassembling them into a kind of broken motion. Some of these are made up of individual photos, others are made from digital footage shot with my camcorder or iPhone, that I dissect and reassemble. Reworking the footage is something that appeals to me greatly. The act of taking it apart, cutting up the motion and reassembling the movement is essential to my practice. 

Many of the works included in this project take the form of ‘blue loops’ that exist as never ending circles of movement, spinning on their axis. The looping of the footage appeals to me in its ability to create a recurring moment that flickers and repeats. Reworking the digital pixels into tactile blue cyanotype prints adds a detail and a surface to the imagery, a grain that didn’t exist before. For me the grain is emotional, and is an essential element in the final loops.