Vertical landscape is a wall hanging made from a series of cyanotype prints on bamboo paper, curved around a wooden dowel, and hung with string. This is one of a series of four Vertical landscapes.I used bamboo paper for its strength and durability but also for its lightness, it takes the cyanotype solution very well and creates lovely tones depending on how saturated the paper is with emulsion.
The hand-coloured inks are from found and foraged pigments of wild bilberry, Himalayan honeysuckle berries, nettles, and rusty nails sourced on route.
Images are inspired by my four-mile route from Innellan Pier to Ardyne in South Cowal that encompasses numerous remnants of past lives, the coastline weaves between past and present intermingling with rockface fissures that protrude and curve, change colour and composition depending on what side of the Faultline your feet are at.
Small tiny significant lichens colonise in clusters on the shingle stretch, along seawalls and discarded substrata. The salt laden winds and shifting ground is colonised by micro vegetation all shades and shapes from deep green to grey, white, sprawling horizontally close to ground or rising tall and thin supported in clumps.
Overhead as the light moves the sound of gulls, carrion crows and the hum drum and wash of waves as the Isle of Bute boats transit the sea from Island to mainland.