You're Welcome! handmade paper using receipts, and a little dew retted flax for the craic!
I’ve left the bright lights of Milford for Mín na Lea again. Errigal has been covered in a sheet of mist all day today. I miss it.
At the weekend I did my few hours at the shop as usual. I’m looking forward to showing the images I’ve made to the people there. I’m disappointed that none of the photographs of the staff came out so maybe next weekend I will concentrate on getting good images of them. The only problem is Marie and Patrick don’t work at the weekend but I could take them on Monday morning before I come back.
The ‘receiving mouths’ I made last week have nearly dried and because they are made from receipt paper – which is also thermal paper the noses and lips have darkened in the warmth of the sun. They are sinister and at the same time comical.
Last Friday was cyanotype day, because it was the only day when there was enough sun to develop the photographs. I had to guess the chemical mixtures because I had no weighing scale so it was very ‘hit and miss’. Mainly miss, actually.
It’s really hard to tell what the images are without some prompting. I showed them to Heidi this morning and when I pointed out details she began to see an image but this is a big problem. The point isn’t to confuse people when they see these images and I don’t really want to have to install those audio explanation devices they have in museums but it is really hard to tell what is happening.
I had a few prints of the same image so I laid them out together. It seems when you see both beside each other the marks become less abstract and you start to recognise a pattern and then you can make out what is in the image. So I will try making a number of prints and displaying two or three next to each other so that the viewer has some clues as to what they are looking at. Also the titles may be important but for now I have called them by the name of the subject.
The other thing I was thinking about with regards to presentation was in a shop setting could I make paper objects that would be for sale. Little ornamental blob type things like ‘poop man’. I could make little paper customers. I have an image in my head of Gormley’s Field for the British Isles except in paper with huge mouths. Maybe people would be offended if they thought that I was saying they have big mouths? or instead of a head just a big orifice or receptacle? Again I can see this causing unintended offence. Hmmm…
I will mull it over and tomorrow I will make paper from the rushed I boiled up on Friday also. Doing something different may help me resolve this other problem. Would be good to hear your thoughts…
At the weekend I did my few hours at the shop as usual. I’m looking forward to showing the images I’ve made to the people there. I’m disappointed that none of the photographs of the staff came out so maybe next weekend I will concentrate on getting good images of them. The only problem is Marie and Patrick don’t work at the weekend but I could take them on Monday morning before I come back.
The ‘receiving mouths’ I made last week have nearly dried and because they are made from receipt paper – which is also thermal paper the noses and lips have darkened in the warmth of the sun. They are sinister and at the same time comical.
Last Friday was cyanotype day, because it was the only day when there was enough sun to develop the photographs. I had to guess the chemical mixtures because I had no weighing scale so it was very ‘hit and miss’. Mainly miss, actually.
It’s really hard to tell what the images are without some prompting. I showed them to Heidi this morning and when I pointed out details she began to see an image but this is a big problem. The point isn’t to confuse people when they see these images and I don’t really want to have to install those audio explanation devices they have in museums but it is really hard to tell what is happening.
I had a few prints of the same image so I laid them out together. It seems when you see both beside each other the marks become less abstract and you start to recognise a pattern and then you can make out what is in the image. So I will try making a number of prints and displaying two or three next to each other so that the viewer has some clues as to what they are looking at. Also the titles may be important but for now I have called them by the name of the subject.
The other thing I was thinking about with regards to presentation was in a shop setting could I make paper objects that would be for sale. Little ornamental blob type things like ‘poop man’. I could make little paper customers. I have an image in my head of Gormley’s Field for the British Isles except in paper with huge mouths. Maybe people would be offended if they thought that I was saying they have big mouths? or instead of a head just a big orifice or receptacle? Again I can see this causing unintended offence. Hmmm…
I will mull it over and tomorrow I will make paper from the rushed I boiled up on Friday also. Doing something different may help me resolve this other problem. Would be good to hear your thoughts…
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