PROCESS – JZ ARTS

WHERE ENERGY AND MOTION ARE MADE VISIBLE

When I think of mark making, I imagine a studio full of heavy printing presses with the distinct smell of ink… a technique that is very systematic and mechanical.

Instead, we were introduced to the method of making marks with organic and simple everyday items (no need for fancy expensive materials poor art students like me can’t afford). As I am ever so obsessed with food, needless to say, i brought some dried ingredients to class. I dug through my grandma’s kitchen stash and managed to find quite a few items which have pretty interesting textures.

We were then left to experiment on our own… TIME TO GET MESSY AND MY HANDS DIRTY!!!

Here are some of the prints i ended up with

MAGGI MARK — with Maggi noodle and block print ink

PILL MARK — a rather similar mark but this time with the pill package

MUSHROOM MARK — dragging and stamping with dried mushroom

We also had a go at mono printing!!!

if you are lucky and there is still enough ink on the lino mat you are able to get a second print called a “ghost print”

RICE — OMG The grains of rice have been imprinted on the paper creating tiny dents which gives a textural quality to the once flat paper. I am really amazed at how simple material like rice can create such different prints and likewise a varied range of textures! Love this!!

ROLLER 2 — using the roller and block print ink on lino mat

ROLLER — this time rolling directly on the paper itself

I really like the textural quality of the kitchen towel. It offered an alternative to the conventional smooth surface that paper has which is interesting!! Hence, the texture of the surface which we choose to print on is significant as it can bear certain meanings and offer us some variations!

I really love how each print is unique and different! The element of chance plays an important part in each creation and there can sometimes be happy accidents 🙂 The result from each print never fail to surprise me!

Back in hall…

experimented with the waxy table and chinese ink and natural coloured calligraphy paper (my mum will kill me if i attempt to do this at home)

kind of look like one of those cells I came across in my bio textbook back in sec school

and I managed to achieve a few interesting marks! Something to note when using calligraphy/rice paper is that you really have to control the ink, for instance the amount applied, the pressure, as well as the time you let the paper sit on the ink as i have torn quite a few pieces of paper.

Now with these experiments done, I am ready to move on to developing my idea and EXPERIMENTING MOREEEEEE

TILL NEXT TIME, GOTTA GO CLEAN UP MY MESS!

Tag: PROCESS

ENERGY + MOTION = EMOTION