Intentions - Context and Testing

In my tutorial, I spoke to Teresa about the fact that I needed to try to decide what contextual background I saw my work fitting into. I knew that I wanted to work on interiors because it is a risk for me as I normally take my work in a fashion direction. However, I needed to expand on this in order to give myself a sense of direction, so I started to look at soft furnishings, looking at companies such as Clarke and Clarke and Matthew Williamson.

Whilst researching I found a few pieces of work that used cyanotype ( a photographic process) and whilst I don’t have access to those types of facilities I started researching and found ‘sun paper’ a paper that is readily prepared and is developed by the suns UV light. I was going to buy some of this to create some drawings, until I then discovered Inkodye, the exact same thing, but an ink suitable for fabric and available in different colours. So I bought some of this to test in the print room and these are how my samples came out.

Left (pinterest imges) Right (My inkodye tests)

 

I don’t think the test was very effective because of the lack of sunlight that day and also I found the colours a little disappointing, however I did like the silhouette shape created and so I have decided that I will try recreate this in the print workshop using clear discharge.