I had some leftover ink and made some monotypes with it – just swirls and wipes. The ink is oil based Cranfield Safe Wash and so I also employed a spray bottle of water.

After they had dried, I decided to add another layer, another process – I used thread. I played around with the burnt paper and threaded paper I made the other day.

My daughter walked in while I was doing the next one – oh, do different stitches she said. I’m not making an embroidery sampler I replied, but then I did end up experimenting with different stitches and combinations of colour. I much prefer the lines in which the stitches aren’t apparent – where it looks like a line made by thread.

I punctured the paper from the reverse to make raised bits to add texture – nothing new, I’ve seen a lot of it on Instagram.

And held up against the window:

I’m still thinking about Shiota’s threads.

And threads on top of threads.

Originally in this post, I wrote about an incident in my childhood in which my mother intentionally tried to disassociate herself from me by walking away when I was not feeling very well. I published the post but then deleted the passage. It felt unnecessary because this image is enough.

I’m interested in trying combinations of processes, like print over cyanotype. I used a piece of scrap cyanotype for this one and I like the effect – I’ll experiment some more.