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Italian Adventure: Day 6

 This is a bit post-humorous, as the exhibition was a week ago now, but once again I've found myself inundated with tasks and this is the first opportunity I've had to sit down and collect my thoughts about Trento.

 The exhibition was quite a daunting experience having never exhibited outside of an educational institution, which always feels very safe. There are people there, it doesn't feel as though they're there to see (or indeed) judge your work, they've just come to support a loved one. I'm not sure if that's naive or cynical, or an odd mix of the two. Anyway, exhibiting work outside of that realm, promoting it as a 'proper' exhibition was fairly strange. Another thing I was apprehensive about was the language barrier and my inability to absorb any words other than 'caffe latte per favore?' 

 In spite of my worries, the exhibition proved a great success, with a fair few people wandering in from the street. One of the highlights of the show for me was Annabeth Robinson's process video, which captured everyone's working methods and showed how the work on show was created, giving a visual background on the principals behind everyone's pieces. I also made a process video, unfortunately my laptop seams to take issue with the file type, hopefully I'll be able to upload it soon.

 I'm actually quite proud of the work I exhibited, creating a series of prints in three days that are show worthy is no mean feat. I originally intended them to be black and gold, but felt the addition of the grey helped to produce a more complex image whilst maintaining the overall tone of the work. I used a map of the area to produce linoprint maps coupled with prints made from tracings I took from the cracks and textures in those areas. The idea was to show how the microscape can be more descriptive of a certain place than a map, and how the small microscape and city scape are irrevocably linked. Basically how these textures can be seen as the cells from which the town is composed. The texture prints also hold a sense of time, in that they are produced by temporal processes such as weathering.

And for the last time #TicTacTrento

Image Transfer Self Portrait.

This is an image transfer of a soluble ink portrait onto cotton, machine 

free stitch highlights the muscular structures and separates the face from

the anatomy. 

Ink Portraits.

Soluble ink pens on paper, showing the musculature of the face and neck.

Again I wanted to maintain relatable features, for this reason most of the

face its self is whole. The image on top is quite a bit larger than the bottom,

I think this is why the colours turned out a bit more transparent. I think I 

prefer working on a smaller scale, with these materials in particular. And yes

they are two different people.

Relief Prints.

Some quick relief prints I did as part of my 'Portraiture as Anatomy' project

The aim of the work as a whole was to describe the structures underlying the 

face, surface anatomy was vastly important to this however. The face as seen 

from the surface gives reference to the musculature and underlying structures

and by making images showing the face as normal it makes images of the 

anatomy more relatable to those who know little about the subject.