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The Maskala Project
A project about disguise protest and the seasons Disguise and camouflage are used by protesters as tools for resistance, both practical and creative, making and wearing a mask helps us to act and move differently, to create change. A mask can protect an individual or...
Plant based chemicals – test 1
My first test is with nettles, thin to say the very least. I'm also hand processing for the first time....
Lisbon and Sustainable darkroom training in Chamusca
I'd never been to Lisbon before, loads of galleries, saw so many fantastic and interesting pieces of art and artifacts. Scores of dada stuff that i had never seen in real life before at the Museum of Contemporary Art but loads of highlights, also great soap and hat...
Developing negatives with coffee
My first attempt at caffenol developer, vitamin c powder, instant coffee and washing soda. Not perfect but a start
More on Tumeric anthotype
Contact print using negative of a fish
Anthotype
tests prints using tumeric, soda crystals and vodka
Artslab ‘pimp my cornish clobber’
Category is workwear, great to work with two local schools and Wheal Martyn CLay works on the first of these projects. After the making from scrap, the children wanted to have a catwalk celebration. Less studio photography than expected but I do have a couple of rolls...
Pimp my Kernow Clobber
part one - workwear. Great to have started engagement at Lostwithial School, designs for workwear began with a visit to Wheal Martyn Museum of Clay Works. Conversation developed about jobs and vocations, we now have waistcoats for astronauts, aprons for artists and...
Phyllis Galembo
https://www.galembo.com/projects Its quite tricky finding a compendium of masquerading traditions around the world but I learnt a new phrase this morning, 'second face' thanks to the online museum of cultural masks. We have plenty of examples of these traditions in...
How big can we go
In a recent project at St Ives Library we were exploring our passion for the sea and I set myself the challenge of going large.