Hand stitching with embroidery thread:

After choosing the pink thread I needed to see how this would look being stitched into an actual image. I used one of my older Cyanotypes that I made earlier surfing this project and hand stitched long and short stitches into it. I also selected a variety of stitch patterns on the sewing machine to see how these would look against the blue tones. 

When looking at this experiment I have come to the decision not to have any stitching on top of my Cyanotype images. I like the warmer tones of the dark pink but when paired with the rest of my work I find it distracting and out of place. I think that the stitching makes the image look a bit tacky and childish. I wanted to really focus on the surreal and liminal during this project and unfortunately I believe that this process takes away from the surreal aspects of the work. 

As a way of somehow incorporating this pink thread into my work in another way, I could use it when I am creating the loops at the top and bottom of my wall hangings. This way there is still some sort of connection to the idea that I have discarded.