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Alun Kirby

Making a sort of cyanotype that equates to memory let me treat each image as an individual.

I've used these ones (which were origami cranes) to explore how we can share our individual memories to create social and cultural structures.

Through shared experience, shared memory, we connect with others.

We can influence these shared memories.

They in turn influence our personal memories.

'Sociobiographic memory' perhaps.

hung installation of blue and white geometrically patterned square images. about 100 of them are hung to create an inverted pyramid
hung installation of blue and white geometrically patterned square images. 500 of them are hung in a double helix pattern
#cyanotype#memory#metamorphogram
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Alun Kirby

Occasionally I don't use the sun as a UV source for cyanotypes.

This is what happens if you place an UV LED torch on cyanotype paper and turn it on for a few seconds.

Each of the LEDs in the torch makes an individual spot.

Combine it with origami and you can get some interesting patterns. This final image started as a Fujimoto Cube, folded from a single sheet of watercolour paper.

#origami#cyanotype#FujimotoCube
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Alun Kirby

Imagine a piece of tissue paper.

Coat it with cyanotype chemicals.

Fold it into an origami crane.

Let it be a crane for a while, in any place with a bit of light. Ignore it, play with it, whatever.

After a while, unfold it. Develop.

You'll get an image.

The image is the memory of it's experience as an origami crane.

Repeat. Every crane's experience - and hence every image - will be unique.

Here's 4 out of the >750 I've made so far.

Square image in shades of blue and white, showing a geometric pattern equivalent to the shapes produced in a square of paper after being folded into an origami crane and then opened. The folds define triangles, diamonds and other shapes. Some areas are dark blue, some white, some tones of blue. In each one, the shapes are the same, but the blue and white is different.
Square image in shades of blue and white, showing a geometric pattern equivalent to the shapes produced in a square of paper after being folded into an origami crane and then opened. The folds define triangles, diamonds and other shapes. Some areas are dark blue, some white, some tones of blue. In each one, the shapes are the same, but the blue and white is different.
Square image in shades of blue and white, showing a geometric pattern equivalent to the shapes produced in a square of paper after being folded into an origami crane and then opened. The folds define triangles, diamonds and other shapes. Some areas are dark blue, some white, some tones of blue. In each one, the shapes are the same, but the blue and white is different.
Square image in shades of blue and white, showing a geometric pattern equivalent to the shapes produced in a square of paper after being folded into an origami crane and then opened. The folds define triangles, diamonds and other shapes. Some areas are dark blue, some white, some tones of blue. In each one, the shapes are the same, but the blue and white is different.
#blueprint#origami#orizuru
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