Outcome
(Attempt 2)
As the previous attempt at my screen prints didn't work out to the full potential I wanted, I have decided to try and do my screen printing and layering as a different process/ method, in order to improve my final outcome. For example, I am going to print my blue inked screen prints onto a white sheet of A4 page and then print the red inked screen prints onto a sheet of acetate and then just layer the sheets over on and another as a way of exploring how past waves of feminism has progressed into modern day and how they have had a stamp on the life of women's lives today.
Screen printing is a process of transferring a stencilled image and or design onto a physical surface to make an image using a screen made out of mesh material, ink and a squeegee. Below is a diagram explaining the technique and processes of screen printing:
Below are my screen prints layered on top of one and another:
Personally, I really enjoy how these screen prints have turned, although I have slightly had to change the general colour palette from my inspiration of the French artistic duos work "Helmo", where I have chosen to work with a white background in contrast to a black background allows the image and colour to pop out more to a viewer of my work. The artistic choice to print on two separate materials, one being plain sheet of white A4 and the other being a sheet of acetate, and layering them on top of one and another creates a 3D and interactive experience with my work, allowing viewers to observe and take time to dive deeper into the understanding of my work of how past generations of feminism have had a stamp on the lives of women today, or have their own interpretation on the subject matter and create their own contextually behind my work.
Over the course of making my final piece, I had originally came up with the idea that I was going to make some ordinary prints, and frame them in some wall mounted frames and present them in an exhibitionist style. However, as I experimented with different outputs of printing this process of simply just hanging these images in frames became less appealing, so I decided to do more research into the process of book making, but making like a flip book effect, as a way of layering the images on top of each other and getting the 3D effect whilst also making it into a book. One particular process I came across was Japanese Stab Binding. This is a process of bookmarking famously used in Eastern Asian countries over the past 2000 years, where you use a sharp object to stab holes into a side of the paper and then sew the pages together making it look like the image below:
