Community Project
My project revolved around storytelling, monstrosity, and hybridity—particularly in relation to Mexican plants and botany.
I led several sessions in which we explored the transformation of a physical object into a flat image using materials gathered from the surrounding area—a sculptural way of image-making. Focusing specifically on shadows and light, we used the cyanotype printing method, where the shadows and transparency of objects are translated into images through a collaboration with sunlight and water to reveal the works. We discussed the origins of cyanotypes and their connection to botany, diagrams, and X-rays. We observed seeds and Mexican flora found along the roadsides, where certain shapes and names relate to body parts, cells, and organs.
In other sessions, we learned about the surrealist game *Exquisite Corpse* to explore a collaborative image-making method, in which one person blindly responds to the previous drawing using only the edge of that drawing as a starting point. We created giant cyanotypes using this technique, working with our bodies and gathered plant elements to produce a five-meter-long collaborative cyanotype.
I led several sessions in which we explored the transformation of a physical object into a flat image using materials gathered from the surrounding area—a sculptural way of image-making. Focusing specifically on shadows and light, we used the cyanotype printing method, where the shadows and transparency of objects are translated into images through a collaboration with sunlight and water to reveal the works. We discussed the origins of cyanotypes and their connection to botany, diagrams, and X-rays. We observed seeds and Mexican flora found along the roadsides, where certain shapes and names relate to body parts, cells, and organs.
In other sessions, we learned about the surrealist game *Exquisite Corpse* to explore a collaborative image-making method, in which one person blindly responds to the previous drawing using only the edge of that drawing as a starting point. We created giant cyanotypes using this technique, working with our bodies and gathered plant elements to produce a five-meter-long collaborative cyanotype.
