Bioplastic/biomaterial and cyanotype sculpture of my hand
Posts by Martha Gray
A colorful image of a wall made with black and white film. The bands of color are the result of three different exposures being made as the sun moves across the sky.
I’ve been #staringatwalls
Doing a little more additive separation photography, aka #trichrome #believeinfilm
Framing test from recent exhibition
#cyanotype #solarfast #sunprint #screenprint #alternativeprocess #alternativephotography #altprocess #altphoto #artandscience #bioplastic #biotextile #bioart #experimental
Yikes the compression on videos is terrible! Here’s a pic of my first attempt at making chlorophyll paper from spinach 🍃
#alternativeprocess #alternativephotography #altprocess #altphoto #sunography #chlorophyllprocess #artandscience #bioart #experimental #analog
Looking forward to sunnier days so I can experiment with chlorophyll paper again ☀️
#alternativeprocess #alternativephotography #altphoto #altprocess #sunography #bioart #artandscience #experimental #analog #chlorophyllprocess #plants
Web Series - on going spider web cyanotype series I am working on 🕷️🕸️
A collection of my alternative photography bioplastic experiments are on display at the Photo Book Cafe. Only up for this weekend if you would like to see them!
#bioart #alternativephotography #alternativeprocess #cyanotype #bioplastic #biotextile #altprocess #artandscience #experimentalart
I’ve been experimenting recently with double coating and exposing bioplastic cyanotype.
This one has been coated & exposed three times while wet. The extra moisture the bioplastic is absorbing is causing drying issues hence the cracks in this piece.
#bioplastic #bioart #artandscience #cyanotype
Bioplastic cyanotype of a rose illustration placed onto a vase
Rose illustration by slimesociety on insta
#art #photography #cyanotype #artandscience #bioplastic #bioart #biotextile #vase #alternativeprocess #alternativephotography
A cyanotype of a pressed fern, the area of the fern is white and the rest is a turquoise blue, at the bottom the artist wrote the Latin name.
Lastrea dilatata. Anna Atkins and Anne Dixon, 1853. Also known as Dryopteris dilatata. Getty Museum. #FernFriday #Gardening #SciArt 🌿
Does anyone have any tips for printing on homemade paper?
Cyanotype print of my back on homemade paper made from paper and plastic medical prescription packets.
Finding it really difficult to get a strong image, but maybe that’s not a bad thing?
#cyanotype #altprocess #alternativeprocess #alternativephotography #sunprint #paper #experimentalphotography
Collage of colored papers and watercolor, on black ink background. Blue five petal flowers with green alternate leaves.
Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis scorpioides). Mary Delaney, 1775. Collage and watercolor. © The Trustees of the British Museum. 🌱 #BlueMonday #SciArt 🌿
Embroidered pillow by me
#embroidery #needlework
The next London alternative Photography Collective social is on the 19th of February at 4pm. It’s a curators tour of the exhibition ‘Still Life: Depicting Nature from Woodcuts to X-Rays’ at The Linnaean Society of London
Link for tickets - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/february-2...
Strange bright red fungus bordered with fine black filaments like hairs. It is roughly heart-shaped
Slightly misshapen fungus heart ♥️
Electrical lines crossing a partly cloudy sky.
Electricity
Shot on Lomography LomoChrome Turquoise 100-400 speed 110 film with a Rollei A110 camera.
#power #HighVoltage #wires #poles #sky #110film #110camera #fineartphotography #filmphotography #photography
Broken glass bioplastic cyanotype
#cyanotype #alternativephotography #alternativeprocesses #artandscience #bioart #bioplastic #biotextiles
Plastic made out of biological materials (algae/agar) and cyanotype a historical photographic process (blueprints)
A collotype print of a stargazer lily, the lilies are white with magenta centers and a slate blue background.
Lily.
Kazumasa Ogawa, 1896. Colored collotype. Getty Museum. 🌱 #MagentaMonday #Photography
Bioplastic cyanotype flower sculpture with my medical records printed on the petals, and vessel made by my mother
#cyanotype #alternativeprocess #bioplastic #artandscience
NIH BioArt Source, a free science and biomedical art resource library created by professional medical illustrators for researchers, students, and other science communicators, is now available from NIAID. #IDSky go.nih.gov/SLWQFNz