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‘Blackdown Blueprints’ explores the historical WW2 airfield sites and military aircraft used within the three airfields located within the Blackdown Hills on the Devon/Somerset border. Using an early photographic process Cyanotype, also known as ‘blueprint’, the work utilises the blueprint process through the exploration of old maps, and old photographs of military aircraft .The OS map used in the making of these ‘blueprints’ is dated 1946. The airfields are not marked as airfields on the map due to the official secrets act.


The cyanotype process was discovered in the 1840’s and was later adopted by map makers and engineers to produce ‘blueprints’. During WW2 the enemy would try to steal ‘blueprints’ of military aircraft and machinery. 

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