The Start of The Actual Project

So now that I have my idea I need to start figuring out how to create the images themselves. I’ve always been drawn to larger images so, of course, my initial thought was very large scale. However, in the class I am TAing in (and Alternative Processing class) some of the examples of cyanotypes we looked at were contact prints of 35mm film directly on to the paper and they were beautiful.

Larger imagines had always drawn me, but what about a beautiful, delicate small image? It was mind blowing to me, I may even say that it drew me in even more then a larger scale image. However, that is not what this project needed. This project did not need something larger, but it needed room to breath. An area big enough for the viewer to get close, but also to step back. So I tabled the size idea and moved no to how I wanted to develop them.

In alt process we had finished the cyanotype process and moved on to Van Dyke, and I fell in love with Van Dyke. The beautiful brown that was created was everything I wanted. So I went back to the question of size and I think I’ve landed on 20x30’s, not too big, not too small.

But now a harder question has come up, how do I enlarge 35mm film with a uv light process that I don’t want to be contact prints?

Above, is my initial thought of how to enlarge the images. I’m borrowing a long UV light from my brother in law for now until I can get my own and I just cut the hole in the wood today thanks to my dad.

On to the next step of seeing if this crazy idea will even work.