skin to sky: Co-Authoring Cyanotypes

skin to sky: Co-Authoring Cyanotypes
Saturdays: Oct 18, Oct 25, Nov 1, 11AM–2PM
FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA CA 90065
Max capacity: 10 each session, open to QTBIPOC
Free

As part of Silvi Naçi’s AIR project, skin to sky, these three collaborative workshops will transform acts of gathering, memory, and joy into a collective artwork—rooted in alternative photographic processes and guided by the spirit of communal making.

We warmly invite those who identify as queer and trans people of color to co-create a large-scale cyanotype — a luminous blueprint created through sunlight exposure — using personally meaningful objects holding memory archived into them. The co-created cyanotypes will later be transformed into a series of hand-crafted kites, which will be assembled and flown together in a later participatory workshop. 

Participants are asked to bring small, non-fragile objects that have distinct silhouettes, forms, shapes — they can also be organic bodies/shapes. Through this process, we’ll explore how image-making can function as both an archive and a gathering, and how the act of play can offer profound strategies for reimagining freedom, solidarity, and creative resilience.

We are offering three dates of the same workshop, so sign up for the one that works best for you! And keep in mind that we need sunlight to create the images, so be prepared to be in the sun!