Blood Migration
Artist
John Metoyer
(American, born 1966)
Date2004
Mediumpaper, folio in clamshell linen box
Dimensions56.4 × 40.8 cm (22 3/16 × 16 1/16 in.) (closed)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineChapin Riley Fund at the Greater Worcester Community Foundation
Object number2015.7
DescriptionFolio of 19 kallitypes, cyanotypes, and Palladium prints in clamshell linen boxLabel TextThe folio Blood Migration highlights John Metoyer’s unique role as contemporary poet and photographer. Although the poems and photographs are distinct from one another—in that no photograph is an illustration of a poem, or vice versa—Metoyer uses both to explore his complex personal history as a black American with roots in the Creole culture of Louisiana. He employs the cyanotype process for both proofing and making final prints, capitalizing on the medium’s strong contrasts to create an eerie otherworldliness in his photographs. The finished cyanotype of Eggs, with a more luminous shade of blue than the proof, creates a haunting and ghostly effect.
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