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Manipulated shadows to resemble the inkblots. I will use the same image to create a risograph. I think this would actually summarize the brief, the lost identity, the loneliness and the strangeness of being misunderstood.

The text is again extract from the poem of Emily Dickinson, ‘I’m Nobody!’

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This last one produces a different effect which I find is closely to my aesthetic. I used the photo of the object with its shadow and printed twice in blue and black. The result is very ethereal, almost like floating objects. I think is my favourite.

I found this workshop very interesting and I think I would definitely like to explore further the possibilities and test its limits for creating a 2D image.  

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Trying to scan and print the textile monoprint that I created. I think the ripples of the fabric are been shown very nicely and you can also see the texture of the fabric.

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Combining the same photograph of the folded object and it’s shadows, reversed, I came up with this result. I find that the blue colour is very successfully enhanced by the Kraft paper, adding another depth.

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Another layered experiment of the risograph, is this monoprint on a newspaper. The vibrant yellow comes through the bottom layer, with the top blue enhancing the details of the text and the stencil. It also creates a teal colour on occasions where the two colours mix.

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Risograph workshop

This was a very interesting workshop. We were shown this powerful machine, resembling a large printer that can produce monochromatic prints. These prints can be layered and expand into colourful multi-layered images. Using images produced from the monoprint workshop but also photographs, I experimented and explored the possibilities of the technique. This example, which I found one of the most successful, was from the previous monoprint collage that I created a couple weeks ago. The bright pink print is overlayered, slightly out of position with the black creating a very powerful outcome. 

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Monoprint workshop

Recycling papers. This paper was from the first index workshop that we did, making traces with various objects. I thought this would give another depth when adding the monoprint stencil. I then proceeded in making a collage out of the cut strips putting them randomly.

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Monoprint workshop

Another way of using the monoprint technique is with a stencil. For these experiments I used the folded form that I made previously for the shadow photographs. I tried it in different materials (newspaper, tissue paper, fabric) to see the difference in texture.

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Monoprint workshop

These are some photos from the monoprint workshop that we did. I printed on the same paper that I used to make the airplane on a previous workshop. What I found interesting was the creases that were created and the pattern that these made. I later added another element with a piece of yarn imprinted on the original print. I quite liked the final output and I find that continues the same theme as the shadows did on the previous images.

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Enlarged shadows on the wall and the ceiling of the same object.

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The object made of tracing paper ribbons and coloured with inkblots and the shadows they create, interwind. I think I like the fact that you can’t separate the shadow lines from the object. There is something different but you can’t make it out.

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Creating multiple shadows from paper folded objects. I find it really interesting that the differences in textures of the paper objects can be shown in the shadows.  

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Paper sculptures using the folding technique by artist Richard Sweeney. I like the floating effect they have. 

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Torn between two HOMES

The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard p.93

In his novel ‘House of Breath’ (p. 40), William Goyen writes: ‘That people could come into the world in a place they could not at first even name and had never known before; and that out of a nameless and unknown place they could grow and move around in it until its name they knew and called with love and call it HOME, and put roots there and love others there; so that whenever they left this place they would sing homesick songs about and write poems of yearning for it, like a lover;...’

...Thus, on the threshold of our space, before the era of our own time, we hover between awareness of being and loss of being. And the entire reality of memory becomes spectral.

Gaston Bachelard (1964)

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I started playing around with darkness and light, shadows and texture. I used a  similar drawing on tracing paper as before which reminds me the inkblots. It was manipulated into a almost folded form ( i didn’t want to lose all the crackled details) and then photographed in darkness with a back light which enhanced the ink and the folds. I think I want to try in on acetate to see how it will work with the transparency. 

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Trying to create a similar image with Rorschach's inkblots. I used wet tracing paper after I folded it randomly. This created a impressive texture for the ink to sit on it. It also hardened the paper, making easy to manipulate into a 3d form.