For my individual project I decided to make something that was hanging because I enjoyed making the earlier translucent assignment, so I wanted to explore making a larger version. Like with that project I wanted this one to also be monochromatic and blue. With the lines on each panel I wanted to play with the idea of something that felt like it flowed and and also was entangled which is why I chose to also use yarn that would hang and be bunched up on the floor.

I decided to have five panels total three with cyanotype and two that I would paint on. I later changed this so my final piece ended up having 2 cyanotype panels and three painted panels. Below is my initial sketch of the project.

The first thing that I did was research what fabrics work best with cyanotype and found that cotton is one of the better materials to use. From there I purchased the fabric and began experimenting with painting on the fabric. I used watered down acrylic paint to paint on the fabric. On these panels I also glued on yarn as more lines that would then hang down to the floor.

Before exposing my large cyanotype panels I started by doing a smaller test run.

I then moved on to the bigger panels, to make my negative that I would lay on top of the fabric when exposing it I painted on cellophane with acrylic paint.

After exposing rinsing and letting the panels dry there were parts of them that I didn’t feel like enough of the lines transferred so I used some white acrylic paint to fill in those areas.

Once all the panels were finished I made a casing at the top of each one so that I could run a wooden dowel through to hang them. The wooden dowels each have screw eye hooks on each end to use fishing wire to hang them. 

If I were to improve something about this project it would have been my approach to the cyanotypes a little differently. I would have purchased plexiglass so that I could have had my negative been compressed down on the fabric better I think then the lines would have come through stronger. Though with that said overall I really enjoyed working on this piece and am happy with how it came out. I explored drawing into space with this project with my use of lines, and more specifically using the yarn to have the lines come off of the panels into the space.