PROJECTION 2
WEEK 1-2
Enquiry: What does emotional impact looks like when it’s not communicated verbally but revealed through time ?
Medium: Cyanotype
Media having a very direct relationship with the project.
Cayanotype – because its more active and mimics fragility visually that is directly related to the project.
As a designer, I value materiality, tactility, and slowness. I chose cyanotype because it is sensitive to time and light mirroring how emotions unfold and persist.
Case Study:
Studying medical diagrams, data visualisations, time charts. I looked at diagrams, time-use data, and psychological charts related to depression and emotional latency such as overthinking durations. These sources were informative but lacked emotional resonance.

Visual language of mental health
Reflection:
Through cyanotype, exposure duration, and image manipulation, I reinterpreted this data into visual experiences that speak to what these experiences feel like.
Visual Poetry:









Time-based Experiments:
I incorporated findings from scientific research and comparative studies on healthy versus depressed individuals.



I translated the differences in their emotional and cognitive outcomes into units of time, then exposed the cyanotypes to light for varying durations—5, 10, 15 minutes, up to 300 minutes.
Each exposure represented a distinct emotional outcome, such as rumination, WASO (Wakefulness After Sleep Onset) or passive activities. As the exposure lengthened, each stage illustrated a deeper emotional loop, reflecting how emotions intensify and persist based on the cognitive patterns and behaviors of both depressed and healthy individuals.


Through these time-based experiments, I captured not only a range of tonal densities but also a spectrum of emotional states. The deeper the blue, the longer the exposure—and the heavier the emotional imprint.
Reference:
Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993) showed how colour when used without visual imagery can carry deep emotional and sensory weight. The film’s immersive use of blue, linked with illness, identity, and loss, inspired me to use cyanotype’s blue to create a similar immersive emotional environment.