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Magda Bond
Eyes in a circle
A5
Cyanotype on a slightly coloured paper/ card. Eyes used were created by using digital transfer film, thread placed around the eye.
A Little Bit About The Artist
A Statement From The Artist
I love experimenting with light sensitive materials and various chemistry to push boundaries of what analogue photography can do to feed my creative side.
I find joy in trying out new things in the darkroom and jumping from one photographic process into another, experimenting and learning along the way. I love the playful aspect of learning something new and then trying to combine it with what I already know. Accidental creations are my favourite.
Tell us about a dream you've had.
One of the most recent ones (pre-pandemic) involved an angry horse that tried to get to me, chasing me in an abandoned mansion. The building was a mixture of Tudor wooden interior with lots of plush and colourful drapes and medieval narrow corridors through which I was just about able to squeeze through.
I ran from room to room and finally decided to hide in a storage room on the ground floor, but the horse kept kicking the door with its hooves, so I ran upstairs. I knew it couldn’t get to me there, as it couldn’t walk up the stairs.
I watched it from above, I saw it paced a large ballroom under me, snarling and grunting, visibly angry at not to being able to catch me.
For a moment, I felt safe.
But then my heart almost stopped beating when the horse rose into the air, got through the wall of the room I was in, and changed into a small man with angry black eyes. He was wearing a green vest and a smirk of victory on his face.
I screamed and woke up.
What's your favourite movie or tv show?
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Omen (fav), Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, The Ring and from the more recent ones it's Rings of Power.
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​​​​What is your biggest influence on your practice?
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Experimenting and having fun while learning something different at the same time. Also, the unpredictability of the analogue photographic process - you never know how your image turns out, or if it’ll work at all, and that uncertainty is quite freeing to me. With alternative photographic processes it’s hard to get the exactly same image every time, this works well for me, as it takes away the pressure of perfection.
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