A commonplace book was kept by writers at the turn of the twentieth century to record quotes, information and daily occurrences. Similar to a scrapbook, these notes grew over time into substantial volumes that allow us to glimpse into the writer’s life and era. Social media is our way of logging our daily lives, thoughts and links that grow into a substantial feed. Through cell phone photography, I document my surroundings and daily life, whether monumental events or banal details. I chose a small selection of these daily photographs to hand print in cyanotype, a historical process originally used to record personal collections. Commonplace is an ongoing catalog of my daily life.
— Lindsey Beal
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FeatureCommonplaceSmartphone photos have become the visual diaries of our daily lives and special things we notice and want to remember — this artist transforms her digital art into handmade cyanotype prints to give them form beyond the ones and zeros in our digital files.View Images
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Commonplace
Smartphone photos have become the visual diaries of our daily lives and special things we notice and want to remember — this artist transforms her digital art into handmade cyanotype prints to give them form beyond the ones and zeros in our digital files.
View ImagesCommonplace
Smartphone photos have become the visual diaries of our daily lives and special things we notice and want to remember — this artist transforms her digital art into handmade cyanotype prints to give them form beyond the ones and zeros in our digital files.
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