Marketa Holtebrinck

'they awoke but didn't quite find the place as it used to be'

Cyanotype from relief print negative on green Kitakata Japanese paper and silk organza.

“Work created in Glasgow after the storm Éowyn on 24th January 2025. I was very much new in the city and walked a lot to get a feeling for the place. On my routine way to Glasgow School of Art studio I started picking up debris of the acrylic cladding that the storm ripped from the twice burnt-down Macintosh library, under reconstruction at the time. As the acrylic blocked UV light, I used the pieces as a relief matrix to print on tissue-like Japanese paper, then used the prints as negatives for cyanotype. The resulting piece is collaged together from eight standard-sized sheets. The play between absence and presence is further heightened by silk organza (exposed to the same negatives) that moves with air currents and creates feel of depth yet uncertainty at the same time.”