Professor Emeritus David A. Scott was intrigued with cyanotypes while at the J, Paul Getty Museum in LA where he was Head of the Museum Services Laboratory, before moving to UCLA as Director, Art Conservation Programme.

Cyanotypes, invented in 1842, by Professor John William Herschel have been rediscovered in recent decades by several artists working in alternative photographic media. David Scott works with local plants from the Hastings area to create botanical assemblages. He also discovers satisfaction in the combination of images from a variety of sources, from his own photographs to some of his favourite Instagram artists that are altered or manipulated to create negatives ranging from the sinister to the surreal.

Inspiration from the lyrics of the Doors, Leonard Cohen, REM, and other musical artists as titles for the cyanotypes is an attempt to personalize the interpretation of the finished cyanotypes which reflect that connection in the mind between the experience of the musical lyrics and the instantiation, the materiality, of the cyanotype itself.  The ballerinas of dance seen in some of these cyanotypes are reproduced or created in these works either as erotic, surreal, or melancholic reflections of affinity between the intention of the artist and the desire to create an empathetic response in the viewer.

Cyanotypes continue to entrance with their possibilities.