Flock in Motion Cyanotype - Limited Edition

Handmade cyanotype on bamboo paper
24x32cm
Limited edition of 25 per variant
Available in blue and white
Signed and numbered by the artist

The work began with the birds themselves. I photographed each one in different countries around the world, drew them individually with marker, scanned the drawings, created the negative, and exposed each print in the sun here in Lisbon.

Cyanotype is one of the oldest photographic printing processes. No ink, no machine. Just chemistry, light, and time. Because each print is controlled by the intensity of the sun and the conditions of the atmosphere at the moment of exposure, every one is slightly different. A painting made with light.

Part of the (i'm)migration series. Birds migrate out of instinct and necessity, and so do we. The work asks what it means to move toward safety, toward love, toward peace, and what it means when that movement is blocked.