Shadows From Printed Fabric

After screenprinting I realised I could again make shadows using my translucent farbic prints.

Shadow Catchers Exhibition

I went to London to visit the 'Shadow Catchers' exhibition in the V&A Gallery. This Exhibition Presents the work from 5 international contempory artists that without a camera create images on photographic paper by casting shadows and manipulating light, or by chemically treating the surface of the paper. Images made with a camera imply a documentary role. In contrast, camera-less photographs show what has never really existed. 

The one artist I was most interested in while visiting was Floris Neusüss that makes photograms mainly of the human image. I like how his work captures brief and glimpsing moments using light sensitive paper.

This piece to me always seemed quite ghostly, but I still really like it because it obviously shows how someone was there but no longer.

This was my favorite of which I seen of Neusüss' work. It doesn't look like much from a first view but after reading it's discription of how he made it was what I was most amazed by. What he did to create this was placing photographic paper in a garden at night during a thunderstorm, and letting lightning expose the paper.

Shadow Catchers
Floris Neusüss Shadow Catchers Video

Cut Out Maps Shadows

Having my cut out maps layered together i saw that it created shadows between the cut out roads. I looked at small sections and drew only the shadows to create the image of the layered roads.

Taking inspiration from Tord laser cut pieces I've looked at making more shadows with my cut out maps by shining bright light onto maps giving a off a shadow pattern of the roads.