Whilst continuing with the print making, I have been looking into further transformations and processes and have been preparing images on the computer for laser cutting. I wanted to scan the prints into the computer and get the laser cutter to remove the white parts, layering different images on top of each other as you would a print, but using ply or card or coloured perspex. Inevitably this has been a really lengthy process,scanning into photoshop and manipulating the image, transferring to illustrator, transferring onto the laser cutter programme. I cut on oiled graffiti board first, as a trial and it took 30 minutes to cut. Anything thicker would have taken much longer.
At the moment the images are too jagged as a result of the tolerance level being too high, and simply look like computer generated images. Rachel Whiteread's laser cut on 0.8mm stained ply, which I mentioned previously must have had a lower tolerance, but the image itself is more graphic and simple. Whilst the laser investigation was interesting and continued the theme of transformation, I don't think it fits in to my art work at the moment. It incorporates too much digital manipulation, removed from the hand, tool, material engagement which I have been developing.
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| laser cut on oiled graffiti board - approx A2 size |
At the moment the images are too jagged as a result of the tolerance level being too high, and simply look like computer generated images. Rachel Whiteread's laser cut on 0.8mm stained ply, which I mentioned previously must have had a lower tolerance, but the image itself is more graphic and simple. Whilst the laser investigation was interesting and continued the theme of transformation, I don't think it fits in to my art work at the moment. It incorporates too much digital manipulation, removed from the hand, tool, material engagement which I have been developing.
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| Rachel Whiteread, Ringmark 2010 |
