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"The Intricacy of Loneliness"

A Series of Cyanotype Interpretations

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I  recently completed "Cultivating Creativity", an online course with Doug Chinnery and Valda Bailey, where I chose to explore the emotion of loneliness through the creation of feather cyanotypes. The cyanotype process is outlined on the Cyanotypes Gallery page.  I photographed each of the completed cyanotype prints in various ways and then worked to create a set of images that together portrayed "The Intricacy of Loneliness".

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My sincere thanks to “Down Like Silver” songwriters, Caitlin Elizabeth Canty and Peter Bradley Adams, for their poignant song, Broken Coastline, and its moving lyrics from which I have drawn my image titles.

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“Loneliness”

 

Now it is Loneliness who comes at night
Instead of Sleep, to sit beside my bed.
Like a tired child I lie and wait her tread,
I watch her softly blowing out the light.
Motionless sitting, neither left or right
She turns, and weary, weary droops her head.
She, too, is old; she, too, has fought the fight.
So, with the laurel she is garlanded.

Through the sad dark the slowly ebbing tide
Breaks on a barren shore, unsatisfied.
A strange wind flows… then silence.  I am fain
To turn to Loneliness, to take her hand,
Cling to her, waiting, till the barren land
Fills with the dreadful monotone of rain.

 

Katherine Mansfield

(14th October, 1888 – 9th January, 1923)

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