Summer Sea Swims 2020

In the UK's post Lockdown #1 summer months, I embarked on a new fitness activity of sea swimming. Once a week, I swam in the sea from a local beach and during each swim collected fine strands of seaweed which lazily drifted past me in the current. Taking inspiration from the Victorian photographer Anna Atkins and her seaweed cyanotypes, I recorded my summer of sea swimming by placing the strands of the salty seaweed directly onto cyanotype coated paper and exposing to the day's sunlight. No two prints are the same, the placement of the seaweed is how they fell on the surface of the paper producing an abstract ethereal record of my summer 2020.