And the world turned blue
Emmanuelle Orr Emmanuelle Orr

And the world turned blue

Art often feels like sorcery but never more so than when light and chemistry meet to reveal something out of this world. In that respect, cyanotype doest disappoint: not only has the process got a magical quality, but the works created feel chimerical, or otherworldly:

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Punctum
Emmanuelle Orr Emmanuelle Orr

Punctum

There is something that connects me and draws me back to look at it over and over again and to want to share it with others. It is the “punctum” that Roland Barthes talked about in Camera Lucida (“La chambre claire”), the something that resonates, the detail that attracts or wounds, as he said.

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How screenprinting took over my life
Emmanuelle Orr Emmanuelle Orr

How screenprinting took over my life

I had abandoned what had been so essential to me in my early twenties- an output for my experiences and feelings, a way of bearing witness to my life and that of those around me, a way to comment on the world and my inner thoughts, a place to develop imaginary worlds and languages.

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