Toned Cyanotype No. 3. ‘Without You I’m Nothing’ 30x30cm on Arches Cotton Paper. The neutral expression of everyone’s best furry friend and confidante can seemingly take anything thrown at it. In a reflective moment, this little fella is wondering if he might not just be a tree falling in the woods. The grainy texture of Cyanotype on this paper makes me think of childhood books and has a slightly grainy lithographic feel which I am in love with. Watching these images appear and change, through the five stages of production reminds me of taking something from the Raku kiln – the sense of seeing something you’ve been working on for the first time, because science and nature have added their own hand to the piece. Addicted. X
David W Slack 