Koru is one of my cyanotypes inspired by street art. Because my brushstrokes used in this work are reminiscent of the Maori design that symbolizes new beginnings, growth and peace, that’s my secondary inspiration.
But you might not have guessed that Koru and all of the works below were crafted from the same digital negative, that takes elements of SE Portland street art and re-imagines them via digital and physical layering, brushstroke variations and more.
Angles
Cityscape
Loops
Tsunami
Urban cloud
Urban hieroglyphics #1
Urban hieroglyphics #2
Urban hieroglyphics #3
Urban waves
Waves
That’s one of the ways that my cyanotype process differs from many other alternative process photographic artists, whose work is more reminiscent of traditional darkroom photography, where the artist endeavors to replicate the same image from the same negative, over and over. Instead, each new cyanotype I create is a one-off original, where factors including the type of brush and paper I use can create a drastically-different image from the one before.
