‘ DUNNOTTAR A BLUEPRINT'

As a child we all made butterfly pictures, splatting paint on a page and then folding it in half. We then took great pleasure in guessing what the surrealist splat looked like, all having a different vision from that one splat. For most this is their first encounter with the creative process. Rachael wanted to try and recreate this in her images and wants people to look at them and find their own interpretation, recreating that first encounter in every image. Too often we look at a photograph but don't truly see it.

By using a variety of analogy and digital processes and combining them into one image Rachael aims to tie the past with the present,  rekindling that childhood naivety that lets us truly see. The environment in which she works becomes as much a part of the final piece as the image itself; she collects samples of water and vegetation from the locations, which she then uses to create cyanotypes, photograms and textured prints  - thus truly containing the environment in every image.

In her previous work Rachael looked at the person we don't often see, the person hidden inside that the camera doesn't capture. This subsequent body of work expands on that concept to look at the wider world, finding ways to get us to truly see our surroundings and not just look.