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Idle Idyll
Izzy leach
Returning to the lochs and lakes where she spent the long summer days of her teenage years - where her friends had lounged and swam away the days, where as they grew into young adults, this carefree activity developed into a more complex means of socialising - Izzy unexpectedly felt a quiet sense of loss as she confronted her memories.

The photographs she made on these trips were printed as cyanotypes, which due to unusual surface of the cotton left the prints with blotches and distortions. The prints themselves becoming an exploration into the limitations of memory, as the natural imperfections of the printing process reflected Izzy’s attempts to reimagine her own. Printed as risographs - in three colour blue - with a depth in tone and colour which takes them further away from their original aesthetic and into a dreamlike, distorted, yet alluring reenactment of the past.

2023
20 pages with 15 loose double sided prints
210x160 mm

Sewn sections cased in four panel cover with loose prints
Riso printed 3 colour blue
Text by Maria Paradinas