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!
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