Anthotype, stocking printed on a letter from Barclays Bank. Both items found during clearance of my aunt’s house, three years ago.
“These are her things,’ he was saying.”These are her things! She touched these things, she chose and bought them one by one, she arranged them lovingly and she thought they were beautiful. Oh my mother, my poor foolish little mother!’ The tears were streaming down his face. — The Book of Ebenezer le Page by G.B. Edwards.
Making these ephemeral prints of intimate everyday items as an act of commemoration, release and something else I’ve yet to define.
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Anthotype print, June 2020
Boris Johnson’s letter to the nation repurposed as a full-size Plague Doctor’s mask to cut-out and make.