“No Trespassing”
“Carport”
No Trespassing is a collaborative project combining the mediums of film photography, digital art, and cyanotype printing. This body of work began as a collection of photographs that sought to explore the idea of liminal space; spaces which are occupied, yet hollow.
“Clothbox”
To further this feeling and begin the first mixing of mediums, specific pieces of each photograph were digitally inverted - creating small, unique liminal space within all of the individual pieces.
Original photograph
Digitally inverted negative
These negative images serve as the base of the cyanotype prints. Cyanotype is a process of printing images using a mixture of iron compounds, which when exposed to UV light and washed in water oxidize to create a version of the image in a prussian blue color. While this technique has been used since the mid 1800’s, the use of cyanotype printing is staunchly overlooked as a medium for many modern artist. This process and the unique color and textures that it creates presented itself as the most natural end to drive home the essence of this project.
This project was executed in collaboration with Miller Matlock, a fellow Dallas based artist who specializes in multiple different mediums of art, including the cyanotype process that brought this project to life. Miller put in many hours into each print, which is clear in the end result of the entire collection. Much of Miller’s work revolves around the relation of space and boundary within the frame of each piece, and this project was no exception.