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The skirt rode up a bit too much for a full length pic, however, I think the crop has a nice period feel.
Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB) is a Swedish mining company. The company mines iron ore at Kiruna and at Malmberget in northern Sweden. The company was established in 1890, and has been 100% state-owned since the 1950s. In 1918 the company purchased the Francis Flower business in the UK which included the GBSS processing plant at Scunthorpe steelworks.
Ground Granulated Blast furnace Slag (GGBS) is produced by quenching molten iron slag from a blast furnace in water or steam, to produce a glassy, granular product that is then dried and ground into a fine powder. It replaces up to 70% of the Portland Cement in concrete, and can significantly reduce CO2-emissions. Francis Flower produced GGBS in Scunthorpe on the grounds of British Steel upgrading their blast furnace slag. LKAB is also a significant supplier of highly upgraded iron ore products to British Steel, the first deliveries were made in the 1930’s. Francis Flower was the second largest supplier of GGBS in the UK.
The plant in the near background is operated by Calumite Limited which supplies glassmakers in the UK and overseas with Calumite, a refined blast furnace slag. Calumite is a glassy calcium-alumina-silicate that is used as a raw material in all types of soda-lime-silica glassmaking.
I was in Glasgow a couple of weeks ago installing ‘Thought…Process’ a show with Malin Gabriella Nordin at Good Press Gallery. I had a super short residency in their work space and made some new drawings and a single edition zine. Glasgow and Good Press treated me well and the almost foreign sounding accents made me feel like I was on holiday. Sunny, mellow, happy times. Thanks to Matt and Jess for having me.
All my work from the show is available at the Good Press wite:
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So...I had solutions left from tea toning more cyanotype fabric and decided to play around with some old cyanotype prints. I have had a stash of less than optimal pieces for just such an occasion. I was attempting split toning, working to keeps some of the blue in the print and not bleach it all out. On a few of these it worked. Often times, as per what seems to be my usual, I get more such results when I'm not actively trying! But that's okay. Just trying to get myself back in the swing of things.