I was listening to a podcast about a photographer who was making blue cyanotypes of forest scenes for a project entitled Blue Trees.
His hypothesis was that the blue color would provide a soothing response in the brain. It made me think about my recent photograms I had made in the darkroom and so I wondered what they would look like if I scanned them and turned them deep blue. I think I like them!
In this particular image I had used a paint brush to splash drops of developer on to the exposed photogram and then brushed in areas of development. It gave a painterly effect.
I went on to reimagine some of my other photograms in blue and was quite pleased with the result.
