“Identity Clothing are
articles of clothing fashioned from book pages, embellished with cyanotype
images,” writes photographer Ginger Owen-Murakami. The dress shown here, for
example, is made from pages of the book Heloise
Around the House.

The rich blue color
of a cyanotype results from contact printing a negative to a surface coated
with potassium ferricyanide in ultraviolet light. The process is also the basis
for the classic blue-print used by architects and builders. “The objects [I
create] act as lessons of feminine and domestic practice. Like an
archaeologist, collecting artifacts and theorizing historical stories . . .
[my] images reference concepts linked to the blueprint of identity.”