Decoding Art Practice - Cyanotype

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Newspapers have always been one of the major tools for disseminating knowledge and reach out to the public. What does the reader feel after reading the news? How do they react to sad news? How does it affect ones mindset? Does it emotionally affect them? Different newspapers generate the same article differently; does it affect the readers in different ways? Does age group matter to perceive an article differently? If yes, does it connect to them directly? On the other hand, does the tragic news make them feel disconnected throughout the alterations in their natural environments?

Cyanotype was used by architects in initial days to make blue prints, the whole idea of recreating the whole newspaper with headlines and images was to come back in 21st century and see how people nowadays don’t have the time to read the newspapers and want to use electronic ways of reading articles, through applications, through online articles that are accompanied with images and tell the entire story through headlines.

I was an eyewitness to one of the riots that took place in Bangalore on Cauvery River and realized how the news spreads through visuals and there is a greater impact with bold headlines and visuals.

Clicked few pictures and took some from newspapers and started to accumulate information on the same.