Cotton cyanotypes are folded in the sun reacting to the abiotics at that moment of time. Each fold covers and hides a part of the total size. The action of folding leaves a direct trace and can accumulate over time until the process is stopped by cleaning the textile with water, which develops and fixates the process. That’s the first moment the textile turns into blue. Afterwards the cyanotype is dried in the wind.

CAMERA, Centrul des Intres           Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2019

1+1+1=3          DMW Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, 2018

Beyond Printed Matter           Willem Twee, ‘s Hertogenbosh, 2022



Cyanotypes on unbleached cotton, wooden sticks or magnets, variable sizes, 2018-2019


72 folds, 2019, cyanotype on unbleached cotton, 150x196cm
241 minutes, 2018, cyanotype on unbleached cotton, wooden sticks, 150x225cm
64 folds, 2019, cyanotype on unbleached cotton, 150x226cm


Beyond Printed Matter           Willem Twee, ‘s Hertogenbosh, 2022


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