Fresh Water / Leena Cortez-Duran

Fresh Water


By Leena Cortez-Duran

In the beginning, I started by drawing a koi fish, and since seeing the paper we were going to work with was dark blue, my first thought went straight to the image of the ocean. After drawing my fish, I decided to use objects related to the ocean on my cyanotype: a small rock, wood chips, a small branch, and a water bottle to give it an ocean reflection effect. But the water bottle didn't fully come out as expected, maybe due to it constantly moving in the wind. After the process of creating the cyanotype, the effect was unintentional of it resembling the depth of water effects by the fish being seen as if jumping into the water and it being surrounded by sea objects.