Cyanotype Elective at SEA

Tracing Light

1st, 2nd and 3rd Year Students of School of Environment and Architecture                                                                                         

21st – 25th January, 2019 (8am – 4pm)

Workshop conducted at CONA Studio, Borivali

This Workshop is a hands-on working with a photographic printing process called the cyanotype. Architects and engineers have used the process in the last century as a simple and low cost means of producing copies of notes, diagrams and drawings, referred to as blueprints. Numerous contemporary artists also use this process in their art.

Cyanotype is essentially a contact printing process of drawings, photo-negatives or photograms. A positive is made by exposing a chemically coated surface to sunlight or uv light and developing with water. The key variables in this besides the photonegative or object are uv light, receptive surface, chemicals, water, exposure time.

The project in this workshop would aim at working with one of the variables i.e. sunlight and making light studies with respect to a space and mapping it as blueprints. The tracing of a place through light.

Over the duration of 5 days, students would be shown various examples of cyanotype prints, be introduced to the practical details of the cyanotype technique from making the chemical solution, coating the paper, exposing the prints, developing and toning them aswell. Students will work with this technique to develop their own individual projects which will be collectively exhibited and reviewed on the last day.