lea
Lea is an artistic piece where nature, the photographic process and human neglect are related. Returning two years later to the same location where Toxic Rage was filmed, the goal was to produce a cyanotype developed in the River Lea. Over the space of a month, I collected rubbish left by visitors to the site during the hottest summer recorded in the United Kingdom. Images of knives, cans, pieces of clothing and bottles were exposed to the sun on cyanotype paper, which was later developed in the waters of the River Lea by the same figure resulting from the performance of Toxic Rage. The focus now is recording.
Cyanotype is an ancient printing process that evokes nature - it was used to print botanical materials in 19-century expeditions - and requires sunlight to print and water to develop the image, which is made with 2 environmentally safe chemicals (ammonium ferric citrate and potassium ferrocyanide). Thus, I used a process known for its ecological origins to permanently record the traces of the species that was once part of, but now stands as an invader of this ecosystem; The man.
The final product is an explanatory video and a magnanimous 7m x 3m cyanotype printed on a contrasting yellow paper with the typical blue of cyanotype,
