Seagrass -> Black Swans -> swan droppings -> invertebrates -> detritus <- plastics

A messy field of straggly pale blue marks made from dried seaweed and hidden plastic that has been placed on top of a cyanotype sensitised piece of paper and then processed so that the background is a deep prussian blue
Seagrass -> Black Swans -> swan droppings -> invertebrates ->detritus <- plastics2022unique state cyanotypemultiples
  Artwork, image and photography © Perdita Phillipsnetwork
  
90 x 130 cm 3 unique state prints, edition 3/3 available$2200 each
Unique state cyanotype prints on Bergger COT 320  
Exhibition: Unique States 2022Holmes à Court Gallery, Vasse Felix 
 

Is it possible to capture the entangled state of a food web? Since 2004 I have been collecting plastic from the shores of Derbarl Yerrigan. The plastics are hidden inside the knots of seagrass.

Unique states exhibition

Unique States considers different states and the many meanings of the idea of the ‘unique state’. It refers to a print making technique, to states of being, societal and environmental states and to our geographical state. The past three years have launched humanity into ‘unique states’ and Western Australia has become even more of a ‘unique state’ because of its position apart from the rest of Australia and the world. Unique States presents political and environmental realities, as much as flights of fancy, taking viewers through a variety of unique states via the medium of print.