Blue Moon

More photos of Blue Moon: The photogram of a sphere, cyanotyped into a body of silk threads that are attached to and sewn into two acrylic glasses.

Capturing the luminosity in a sculpture like this is one of those things. The camera "sees" an image that looks quite different from what my eyes see - as if it has its own idea of how to "translate" luminosity, shading and depth into 2D.

Blue Moon was photographed with nothing but the natural November light filtering through the north-facing studio window, and thus became a subject for familiarising myself with the manual settings of our camera...

New blog:

between the lines is a growing archive of texts - texts that accompany me and I keep returning to, lines that make me muse and think.

Globe's sister

A dream come true: Globe's sister so to speak - but while the former has been screen-printed, Blue Moon is cyanotyped: white silk-threads have been dyed with a photosensitive solution and exposed to sunlight. In other words - the sphere has been 'blue-printed' into a body of white silk-threads that are sewn to two acrylic glasses.
Depending on lighting the blue varies from royal blue to a dark cyan.
Thus, this was - and is - a photo challenge too.



Details


silk-thread, acrylic glass, weights (sash window)
33cm x 33cm x 82cm (109cm including weights)
Read more about the process here.
see also Themes / Process (May- September 2017)

work by other artists

Korean artist Seon Ghi Bahk
http://mymodernmet.com/jaehyo-lee-stone-installations/
mymodernmet.com/seon-ghi-bahk-an-aggregate-charcoal-sculptures
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zhu jinshi suspends boat with 8,000 sheets of folded rice paper
https://www.designboom.com/art/zhu-jinshi-suspends-boat-with-8000-sheets-of-folded-rice-paper-12-12-2013/
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Xawery Wolski knitted wire
https://xwolski.com/art/general/
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Sabine Reckewell
sabinereckewell.com/sabinereckewell.com/Linear_Installations__1979-1981
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Sui Park
www.suipark.com
www.behance.net/spark19

Blueprint

After a lengthy exposure period - it turned autumn and sun light is receding... this threaded silk piece has been processed as any cyanotype / photo / photogram:

exposure - stop(bath) - rinse and dry

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PS: this was four years ago - a layered version.

www.ruthasawa.com


image source

“An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.”
Ruth Asawa

process

another three-d negative: a black rubber ball embedded into white silk threads. My hands and body slowly but surely learning how to move, twist and pull, tie and sew a single thread of silk (in)to two opposing acrylic glasses; until eventually… my fingers become fluent.

About 10'000knots and 4km of silk thread later, ready to be 'blue printed', so that what is light becomes dark and what is dark becomes light.

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Globe

In my studio, some time ago... Loom and screen printing table teamed up and harnessed like horse and cart. It could be an installation… It was the printing of Globe.

The loom separates the threads into layers so that four individually reserved layers can be printed simultaneously.

it works!

White silk-threads - cyanotyped. Dyed and processed as a whole body. It works. This is a study - to find out just this. - Nice to watch how over time the blue becomes more and more saturated.
The white shape is spheric - but slightly distorted and asymmetric, on purpose.



12cm x 12cm x 44cm
silk threads (cyanotyped) / PET / bicycle tube / steel

By the way, find more about the process in previous two posts.

3-d cyano print

Exposure to sun light and...

...rinse and developing bath.

Work in progress

In the studio, developing a 3-dimensional negative - a test-run for a new piece.


A block of silk-threads. A black roundish shape - integrated within the threads. Soon to be dyed and exposed to sun light...

Lightning

left: Lichtenberg figure from "über elektrische Entladungsfiguren auf photographischen Platten" by Anton Blümel (Berlin, 1898)
center : Hiroshi Sugimoto, 'Talbotized 011', 2012
right: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lightning Field photograph from 'The Long Never, 2008

from St Ellock's page

Book with No Pages

Perception @ Cupola Gallery

Friday, March 17, 2017 7:30pm to
Friday, April 28, 2017 6:00pm

Two version of Book with No Pages
and Squaring the Circle are on display.

Haven

A world at the bottom of the Mediterranean:


HAVEN from Les films engloutis on Vimeo.

The story behind

PS: ...reminds me of Jason deCaires Taylor work. 

Lightweight

Lightweight 
Nylon thread, acrylic glasse, light (LED), weight (steel) 12 x 36 x 200 cm

Part of Ferens Art Gallery's 2017 Open exhibition in Hull

13 January to 12 March 2017

Works by Zimoun