#experiment5

TRANSFORMATION F I V E

The outcome of my mod rock piece hasn’t done immensely well, I tried a better technique of emulsion and it still isn’t working properly. I believe its the cheap paint and a cheap printer ink as well! In previous experiments I had been using a better quality emulsion paint (which I don’t have) and a laser jet printer at uni which I think plays a part as well. I had to rub the emulsion of gently and even then it was getting damaged.

This is the outcome so far, I left it in the sun to soak abit and I worry the sun takes away the colour since I’ve took these photos but there’s nowhere else I can put this piece inside, so it has to stay outdoors for a while!

Although it didn’t come out as bright as I wanted the colours of the images to come through I still think it gives that faded/nostalgic look to the images, of age and wear to them!

So it’s been abit sunnier today, and things have not been great at home but today I have managed to try to go ahead with my experiment and ‘peel’ of my photos of the modrock wall to hopefully leave the emulsion behind. As it was drying the past few days I noticed it had started curling at the ends of the images and I had moved my piece around so much it was crumbling in random places. It’s hard having really limited space. I tried placing water on the emulsion transfers and rubbing but because I had painted over the top on the photos as well (I now know is a mistake) it had not set properly and did not transfer well as planned. Anyways, it left some colour on the modrock wall and the photos completely peeled away but with some paint and modrock. It looked pretty good on itself! 

Now I hope learning from mistakes I try a second attempt at the emulsion transfer, no paint over the top of the photo once placed down and I rubbed it down so it stuck down firmly! 

Below are the images of the photos that peeled off that didn’t work well on the modrock. The qualities of the photos themselves were interesting, the image was faded out almost completely and the ‘rubble’ left on made it feel quirky. 

The sense of dream-like qualities to these images are interesting, I like that its desaturated the colour of the images as well. 

I have started to transfer emulsions onto my large modrock wall, unsure how it will turn out and the weather’s colder today. I hope it doesn’t rain since I have nowhere to put it in the house where I don’t get modrock trails or yelled at. 

What I’m expecting to happen is that the emulsion photos will come out with faded colours but enough to tell what the images are. I’ve experimented emulsions before but not on modrock so I’m unsure what to find. 

Experiment 5- Art simultaneously being created and destroyed

I got a pile of old newspapers (symbolic of political, social, economic paradigms) and with black charcoal started to draw over them. The water that intentionally dropped down immediately interrupted this process and it became a mess.

Left - Osaka, Japan

ASSESSMENT 3: EXPERIMENT 5