Thursday, 29 December 2011

What my plan is after the deadline

I enjoyed working with dancers and fabric and want to continue this idea after the deadline. I want to achieve the image that Bruce Monk achieved in which the ballet dancers arms look like wings and they are all look like swans. I want to achieve this in the student with one dancer and instead of having her in a white leotard and would like to use a black leotard and black fabric around the arms to create the effect of the black swan.

Below is the image in which I am referring to. Photographer Bruce Monk


One of my University colleagues gave me the item to print on to fabric and I fell in love with the idea and want to try and print onto fabric. I know it won't be the easiest but would like to print one of my Lycra images on to Lycra. This will be difficult as it is stretchy fabric and could stretch back ad ruin the image but I would like to try this.

I have contacted David Farnell and printing lab to see whether they can print onto fabric but unfortunately they are unable to. I have heard that the textiles department in out University might be able to and will look into this. If not, I can always try putting emulsion on the fabric and projecting the images on the fabric and try process this myself but it might not be that easy to process in the chemicals but I will look into this more. I aim to print the black swan image onto shear fabric to match the movement of how a swan moves.

Below are some examples of images printed onto fabric





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