"Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Take off your clothes. Forget yourself. Make love. Self-destruction is the only way to peace". - Yayoi Kusama on self-obliteration

Cyanotype and toned cyanotype (with coffee) woven together.

Two negatives, four ways. Cyanotypes truly do lend themselves to play!

Today’s Substack post is sort of in defense of the point and shoot. Share your fave p+s and show us an image!

This is at the Boundary Waters Canoe Area town on a Snap Sights (that lens flare tho) camera with Kentmere 400

(Read the post here: open.substack.com/pub/itsamyli...)

@the.artists.collab
attention: shades of grey.
Printed on my crappy printer, photocopied 8 times, scanned and stitched together in photoshop, inverted, printed on a transparency for cyanotypes, & was toned in coffee. Don't compare your 'in-progress' with someone else's proverbial 'final piece.

Self-portrait on film on cyanotype on fabric. @the.artists.collab always keeps me creating new things

Post-Processing ep. 013: brainstorm Buddies/The Seizing of Sally Mann’s Images

pod.link/1781387584/e...

Gritty chemicals, water spots, and light leaks. A sort of veiled vulnerability, but I swear I’m trying.

Fuji Superia XTRA 400 | Nikon F100 | developed in Cinestill cs41 | scanned on a Noritsu Ls600

Listen in as I chat with writer and photographer @ashleegadd about how to embrace the pivot, how to discern what you share with the public, and pushing through the initial resistance. You’ll get tips, tools, and ultimately know you’re not alone in the struggle.

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It’s #cyanotypesunday! Join us every Sunday in creating with your hands! I have a tutorial and full list of supplies here: www.itsamyliz.com/journal/how-...

Who’s joining in???

FYI cool people, this is what nerds do on Saturdays. We play games and then take pictures of the games we’ve played:

Present Amy gets really annoyed at Past Amy’s lack of executive functioning when she’s looking for old things she’s written.

Although I did many productive things today, the thing I’m proudest of is ridding my handle of the .bsky.social. Am I a tech genius? Probably.

Playing with toning cyanotypes! I’ve done some toning but I have so much more to experiment with and play with! This was black tea, toned overnight *without* bleaching first. I dig.
#cyanotypes #alternativeprocess

How do you encounter work that makes you uncomfortable? Are you approaching it with fear or curiosity?
Full episode: pod.link/1781387584/e...

A member of @the.artists.collab brought this to our attention today. Very interesting month for our group to be studying Sally Mann.
Read it here: fstoppers.com/news/police-...

Making tangible art—the positive manipulation I’m (we’re all?) needing rn.

I tried to post a poem, but it didn’t fit.
I guess my “never having done twitter” is showing.
Here’s an image instead.

Related: are we unhinged here or buttoned-up?