Ideas for my studio practice have been developing quickly from the number of things I have been doing alongside one another. I have found that when layered on top of one another, the conjunctions I have been working with form interesting ‘anti-words’; giving the illusion of a real word initially but later revealing itself as anything but real. Layering of these non-keywords form a new visual language, and have been likened to old languages like Latin when they have been seen in my studio by my peers. What’s more interesting is that these ‘new’ forms are only the result of merging two regular words in almost constant use. These visually striking motifs have given me the perfect material to experiment with blind embossing paper for the first time since I had the idea last year. I have cut the shapes from grey board by hand and layered these with wet paper through a printing press to create the emboss. I have found that the thicker the paper the better the effect of the emboss. I have been finding it difficult to find other examples of artists using embossing in their work, the only example being Langland and Bell’s architectural pieces on Somerset paper. These geometric pieces utilise small shapes to create a raised floorplan on paper. Here zinc plates are used to create the emboss, and I am hoping that I will be able to trial a number of different materials using a laser cutter to enable the use of more materials other than grey board and to make the cutting process easier. I have also tried combining this process with screen printing to try and create more depth to the shape of the letters. When completely lined up, I can’t say that I can see a huge difference, but the further off-set the emboss is to the printed letters, the more obvious the two processes are to see. These initial trials have proved successful, and I want to pursue this with larger and more complex designs when I have an easier cutting process to utilise.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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