RE:IMAGINED CYANOTYPES

Art by Lili Spratt.

If the natural world could paint, what would it create? 

By allowing chemicals to fizzle in the sun or tear with the wind, Spratt relinquishes all control. In these pieces, the details, the shapes, and the stories that emerge are all spoken by the world that surrounds the bare canvas. 

Inspired by Meghann Riepenhoff, who manipulated the cyanotype process [a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print], Spratt also harnesses a reinvented cyanotype process. She changed the amount of time the chemicals spent in the sun, didn’t process the chemicals in a dark room and documented the colour change.

She depicts the beauty that emerges from interaction; interaction between solution and paper, between weather and wearer, between what we can and can’t see.