Page Progress

Progress on my wall

Over the last ten days I have been working a lot with screen printing. I have been following my plan to work with the newspaper pages which I collected.

The layered pieces are already looking extremely interesting, and its great to see some stories being lost under other stories and some images and words coming through strongly. As well as sticking to my plan which was creating coloured and monochrome pieces as well as layered and individual pieces, I have decided to create one large scale image. This image has several of the prints on it in different colours and I hope to work into them with drawing and projection after I have finished with all the prints.



Close up image of layered newspaper traces

Layered newspaper traces

Through using screen-printing as my method of production I have ended up with lots of spare photocopies on tracing paper of the newspaper pages. These spare pieces have worked to my advantage as much like the prints they layer together really well and create great images. Looking at them in more detail made me think about simple experimental processes I could explore on the side while continuing to work with printing. I have used several of the copies and started tracing them in to my own image, and I plan on using a light box to help me create more hand drawn pictures. I also think that these tracing paper copies could be bound together and put towards the series of books I'll be making with my finished products.

One of the key aspects of my project is looking at the way in which physical and virtual things meet. The newspaper pages I have collected are very physical things yet you can read the same articles and news online. The news websites are constantly changing and being updated this is similar to the way in which the newspapers are developed every day. One choses which articles they would like to read and they follow them, some stories are repeatedly published and updated over a few months and some stories appear for one day and are never thought of again.
By taking photographs of the newspapers they return to the virtual world.

An internet news page allows you to follow single stories much like a paper does and eventually it alters itself for you. Internet pages like YouTube alter themselves to suggest things that you would like to see. They register what you have watched, read or looked up and find similar things for you too look at. The personal aspect of these websites relates back to the diary theme of my project, as I started this project with a personal investigation.