More gum arabic portraits and objects printed on paper and organza. I think there's a lot of potential in using organza for overlaying images. I won't have time to explore it in this project. The deadline with drying time is about the begining of September. But I will be coming back to it later.
Not sure where I'm going to go with this but I'm exploring printing on different surfaces.
On paper ...
A group of us are starting a quick project at the Lancashire archives for exhibition in September. It's based on the work of John Mercer, dyer, chemist and early salt print pioneer.
In response to one of his sets of prints (same image different colour ways) I found myself asking questions . Who is the boy? Do the props say anything about him? Or about John Mercer’s musical and scientific interests? Is the setting significant? What is that building?
OR could it be simply set outside for light using a collection of stuff that was to hand to see how the detail would work in print.
My instinct is to try and make a story out of the image.
I’ve started by making images containing a person and several objects.
As characters I used people taken from family photos, mainly Victorian or Edwardian and added ‘props’ from my own photos or scans of objects
And as some of the images held by the archive are printed on fabric I’ve also printed onto thin cotton.
