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Submitted: May 18, 2008
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Make:Canon
Model:Canon EOS 40D
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ISO Speed:800
Date Taken:May 18, 2008, 2:33:02 PM

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Stargazer II Vandyke Brownby $ewm

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This is part of a project for my Adv Photography II. The three projects I proposed for the semester all involved handmaking silk, bamboo, and soy silk paper. The three processes I decided to use were polaroid lifts, vandyke brown, and cyanotype. The projects were merely experimental to learn about how the photography processes would interact with the fiber in hopes to develop something that tied photography and fiber arts cohesively.

This is a vandyke brown made on processed bamboo fiber.

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Purchased Processed Fiber (Bamboo, Tussah Silk, and SoySilk)
Used a Process called Silk Fusion
Created Digital Negatives with Pictorico Premium OHP Transparency Film
Purchased chemicals for Cyanotypes and Vandyke browns. I mixed each set of chemicals and applied the emulsion to the paper. After the paper was dry I overlayed the digital negatives over the paper and exposed them to UV light from the sun outside.

~Kagitsune Jun 21, 2008 Professional Artisan Crafter

Woah. What an awesome experiment! No longer focusing only on the image, but the very medium the photo is processed in. I love it!!!

*goes to check out the rest of your gallery*

`2dazed Jun 13, 2008 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

That's incredible! I've never seen or heard of anything like that. What do you with this type of work when it's done? How do you preserve it? Does it get framed?

$ewm Jun 13, 2008 Hobbyist Photographer

I will be placing them in a drop box but I'm not sure how to adhere it to the back safely so that it can be taken out without damaging the print.

`2dazed Jun 13, 2008 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

Well, when my Dad sends us one of his laser prints of his paintings, he puts it in between two flat frame sized cardboard pieces that I think he gets from Michaels craft store or an office store. Then puts it in a frame size box. I don't know if that's what you were looking for.

$ewm Jun 13, 2008 Hobbyist Photographer

It would have to be something like this [link] black exterior and interior with glass in the front. I thought using one of those glass sandwich frames would be cool looking however it won't work for fiber paper since the fiber needs to breathe. I just need to figure out how to put it onto the back of the box without taping or gluing it as I'd like it to not damage the paper and be able to take out if necessary.

`2dazed Jun 19, 2008 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

Mmm, I see. The 2 cardboard pieces I mentioned are like that. No gluing or taping. You just put one piece on both sides, & slide it in. But I see what you mean about the breathing part. What about those small pieces of blue adhesive used in schools to "tack" things up? Those sort of rubbery things? It's not glue or tape, but sort of works to hold things in place.

~Ahsavka May 19, 2008

I really like the look of this. The color is excellent, the cloth texture is wonderful. Very nice.

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