Continued to experiment with other media-- conte pencil, ink, metal leaf etc. I am still not satisfied with the results. Some media work well on a solid cyanotic background, but not when there are images in the background (at least not yet).
Beinecke Trip 2:
More illuminated manuscripts, this time maps. Although similar, the maps had a lot of individuality. Some were more dense with words, plants or landforms. The backs had ink staining through, and looked eerily like skin with veins. I saw a strong relationship between man and nature in the maps; man trying to control nature (cities) and make sense of it (the maps), and nature controlling man (cities built around landforms or because of them). Some maps were in very good condition, and others had been repaired. The backs of the repaired maps looked like collages, and the fronts were filled in with ink.
Atlas, Frederik de Wit, 169-?
Atlas factice of 92 maps by Blaeu, Visscher, Jansson, Hondius and others, 1556-1680:
Almost palm-sized, rich colors and metal leaf.
More maps, just FYI: http://thewalters.org/exhibitions/maps/exhibitions_images.html
Cyanotypes:
Blood Migration by John Metoyer:
An artist book of poems and cyanotype, kallitype, and platinum. Beautiful other-wordly images.
More Prints:
Made multiple exposures over old prints. Also put objects (lace, beads, plants) with the negatives on the sensitized paper...
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