departure (2020) incorporates the alternative 19th C. cyanotype process with my passion for 16mm film and darkroom experimentation. For this short projection performance, I created handmade 16mm cyanotype film loops by coating clear leader with cyanotype iron based emulsion, then created a contact print using the original black and white negative and the coated film strips to create a final positive cyanotype image. This excerpt is a digitized version of a dual 16mm projection performance I created with the handmade cyanotype 16mm film loops. As the two projectors ran, I incorporated a live soundtrack and amplified the motors of the projectors using contact microphones. The cyanotype images are of my mother and sister. The audio is taken from a recorded conversation between my grandmother and myself during her final stages of Alzheimer's. This piece is an acknowledgment to the women in my family.

This still frame was scanned from a 16mm film that I had created by hand-coating clear leader with cyanotype emulsion, then creating a contact print using the original black and white negative and the coated film strips, to create a final positive cyanotype image.

This still frame was scanned from a 16mm film that I had created by hand-coating clear leader with cyanotype emulsion, then creating a contact print using the original black and white negative and the coated film strips, to create a final positive cyanotype image. I am very interested in incorporating alternative photographic processes and 16mm filmmaking to experiment and create unique new forms of the moving image.