Cyanotype Final Installation

 Hello everyone, I'm Nico Inocalla. I'm finishing up my bachelor's degree in Visual Arts in Fall 2024. Learning cyanotype not only taught me how to do the process, but also how to be patient, consistent, and accept things as they are because sometimes they're beautiful.

Johnathan 3

 

 

 

Johnathan 1

Hello there my name is Johnathan Jones, I'm a photographer who works mainly with digital photos. I live and work in Regina Saskatchewan. I am on my way to be finishing my MAP (Media, Art, and Performance) Certificate program which is coming to an end soon. 

Gorgonia Sea Fan

Sea fan gorgonia ventalia

Carex brevior from July 20 1998 

Sonchus asper was used here. to make the border a clear film sheet with creamer pod with a white board marker. Corded with

 

 

 

 

I used a Sonchus asper starfish 2.5 ml of solution

Final Installation - solargraph pinhole images and cyanotypes

 Well... it has been quite a semester and I am blown away by the engagement, energy, and mutual care of this group of students.

I hope readers have enjoyed looking at the blog documentation of artworks they created, and had a chance to see the installations throughout the semester at the Archer Library on campus.

This final installation presents students' final works in cyanotype using, in good part, Platine paper, which is a much finer and more beautiful paper than the Canson watercolour that is good to learn on.

It also presents colour prints from scans of multi-month exposures using RC photo paper in beverage cans - pinhole cameras - pointing south to capture the apparent motion of the sun across the sky each day, rising higher and higher as we move from winter solstice to vernal equinox.

MFA students Mona N. and I did some tests with our new glue binder and made a small run of hand-made photobooks of these solargraph works, which also include images made by class guests David Garneau, Larissa Tiggelers, Dean David Dick (MAP), along with community members John G. Hampton & Amber Christensen, Tomas Jonsson & Jessie Short, and Jera MacPherson & John Cameron. In time, I'll get some documentation of the book up here also (who knows, maybe we can enter it in to special collections at the library, and submit it for author recognition this year, as Librarian Michael Shires suggested).

I'm so grateful to have had such a beautiful, busy, and bountiful semester with this group of students!

Final Installation: Pinholes & Ghosts

 My name is Elizabeth Dow and I am a student in the BFA in Visual Arts program as well as a Admin Assistant in the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance.  This class has been challenging in a way that none of my prior photography classes have been, but it has been so rewarding and having the chance to display our works in the Archer library has been amazing. 

Back at the beginning of the semester our class created pinhole cameras from cans and placed them somewhere to capture an image for the entire length of our course.  This would result in an image that captured the sun's progress across the sky every day and its rise higher each day as well.  

In the window of my office, facing SE

On the bird feeder outside my house, facing S

On a lamp post at the University, facing S

The images that these cameras captures clearly the path of the sun as well as how sunny our days have been from January to April. This photographic process that interesting to learn about and also simple to construct.  The only danger being if your cameras were going to be taken over then time period or affected by the weather.  

The other project that I worked on for this installation was combining photographic negatives with my diorama pieces to create ghostly images within the scenes. I did this by placing the negative on the sensitized paper and then placing the tiny figures, trees, furniture, etc. on top on the glass used to press the negative to the paper.  

I also created pieces using a combination of negatives and contact prints with diorama pieces to make different types of ghostly images.

As the main focus of my photographic process over the past couple of years has been building diorama's to take images of I wanted to attempt to make cyanotype images that I could then build a diorama out of.  As Professor Horowitz put it to me yesterday, it seemed like a "full circle moment" to have used photographs to build a diorama which I could now use to stage scenes for future photography images. 

This semester has been a wonderful experience working with this group of people and getting to collaboratively put together these cabinet displays. Rhylynn and I shared one side of the display for the semester and always had a great time putting our heads together to figure out how to make it look amazing. 

Of course we could not have done any of this without Risa Horowitz who pushed us the whole way through and suggested the Archer display in the first place during our first or second class.  Thank you for everything you do and for another amazing class.

Pinhole Images and Digital Negatives

 I am Mary Rose Molina, a student at the University of Regina majoring in Political Science and minoring in Photography. I was born and raised in Mati City, Davao Oriental, Philippines, and an immigrant in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. I am passionate about photography, and I am eager for my journey ahead.

At the beginning of the semester, we constructed a pinhole camera and left it on a three-month exposure experiment. Placing the camera at three distinct window sills within my residence, I desired to capture the passage of time through the lens of natural light.

Pinhole #1

Pinhole #2

Pinhole #3

I have also made a cyanotype images from two of my pinhole images, and I have also added some of my waxed street photography digital negatives that I have on a platine paper.

Pinhole image on platine paper
Exposed for 10 minutes with glass and foam.

Pinhole image on platine paper
Exposed for 10 minutes with glass and foam.

Platine paper
Exposed for 13 minutes with glass and foam.

Platine paper
Exposed for 15 minutes with glass and foam.

Platine paper
Exposed for 13 minutes with glass and foam.