East Yorkshire artist Mandy Barker has found a way to make us look again at pollution – cataloguing fibres from fast fashion in the style of a Victorian book about British algae
hen Mandy Barker stumbled upon a fragment of colour in a rock pool while walking near Spurn Point, East Yorkshire, in 2012, she was bewitched. “I thought it was a piece of seaweed with lovely colours on it – greeny-browny – but when I went to pick it out, I saw that it was actually a strip of clothing material,” she says.
Atkins’s pioneering work curated ghostly images of algae shapes on cyanotype, a monochrome blueprint created on a near-ultraviolet-to-blue light spectrum. Published in 1843, only 17 copies of the book – in varied forms of completion – are thought to remain. She tracked down the same paper, watermarked J Whatman, that Atkins had used. She traced over Atkins’s alphabet to create the same feathery handwriting, although she had to replace the Latin names of algae in Atkins’s captions, with Latin approximations of the garment types she had found.
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