Waving, not drowning.

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  davido

• Sep 29, 2019

This is cool! What kind of xray film? Interesting colour for cyanotype.
David

 

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  awty

• Sep 29, 2019

@davido . This type https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/HRU-141...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
This process of toning https://mpaulphotography.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/cyanotype-toning-the-basics/

 

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  Ken Bingham

• Oct 5, 2019

Nice literary allusion, too.

 

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  awty

• Oct 5, 2019

@Ken Bingham Is a good poem, one that holds up over time. I had a major operation a couple of years ago and my body had stress attacks, one of which was I would stop breathing while conscious, said to the nurse if I wave my arms, Im drowning not waving. Usually just needed to shake my head a bit and Id start up again.

 

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  Ken Bingham

• Oct 5, 2019

@awty Interesting anecdote. The poem is more about emotional suffering, I think, and alienation, but your perspective (both verbal and visual) certainly adds an appreciable dimension to it. And as you say, the work holds up over time -- the price we pay for being what we are in the modern world should always provoke reflection.

 

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  awty

• Oct 6, 2019

@Ken Bingham The picture was hastily conceived and executed, the only way I learn is by doing, so I do then reflect. The modern world and how it affects us as individuals is something that interests me, specially the socially isolated, those not waving but drowning.

 

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  Ken Bingham

• Oct 6, 2019

And I find this work a worthy exploration, just in case that wasn't clear.