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. 

The pieces thread and dissect time, and offer a perspective of time that feels caught somewhere between still and motion. I’ve always been interested in the conversation between still and moving imagery. Chris Marker's La Jetee 1962, a film made entirely of still images, has always been a big inspiration for my practice. 

 Working with alternative analogue techniques adds a physical relationship to the work and my surrounding environments. The project incorporates sustainable methods in my practice. I love the darkroom but there is something about creating images out in the light that is important to the execution of the work. I feel much more inspired working in open spaces. The cyanotype prints are exposed by the light of the sun, and hung up on washing lines to dry in the garden. 

The works mark an intuitive reflection to the surrounding landscape I have grown up in, one that exists at the edge of the land. Land and water play a big part in the work. I’m considering how places have continued to shape me and how their influence is intertwined with my approaches to image-making.