This week I went back to making buildings because I felt I was starting to fizzle out with people and needed a break from them for a while. I completed Kino Babylon and redid Konditorei Krautzig. I did, however, make some more people.
(The background of the new bakery is less washed-out in person. It has a textured pattern that's not overly visible in the scan.)
(She will be serving a slice of Danish apple cake and a cappuccino.)
A couple ideas that are percolating in my brain right now are as follows:
1. Gluing my pieces to a large sheet of Rives BFK paper and letting it hang how it may (be it slightly warped/puckery) from a wall.
2. Gluing my pieces to a large sheet of 1/4" wood and gluing that wood to a wooden support frame with crossbars.
3. Gluing my pieces to a realy heavy piece of 3/4" particle board or birch ply.
4. Somehow attaching my pieces to a wall, directly.
*Option 4 really intrigues me because I would be able to spread out the contents without being confined to a frame but I don't know how I would take down the work at the end.
Utilization of Time:
Collaging: 10 hours
Library Research (looking at Jo Mora maps): 1.5 hours
Scanning, Photoshopping and printing book images of Folk Art: 45 minutes
"Sketching" possible layouts in Photoshop: 3 hours (see below)
Very nice, Laura. Well discussed. Makes me realize how intricate this project is.
ReplyDeleteLaura,
ReplyDeleteYou can keep the plywood from warping by creating a support frame for it out of some 2x4's or 1x2's like you mention in option #2. I do this all the time with plywood and masonite and can help if you choose to go this route. This is better than option #3 because it will be considerably easier to hang and to carry with the backbrace while still giving you depth off the wall. If you go with option #2, and can't find wood or the dimensions you want, or if you want it to be lighter, smaller, or less awkward to carry, you can always make two canvases to be hung flush against each other on the wall.
I know there was a grad student last year, Emily Orzech, who actually stretched paper onto frames like canvas. I'm not sure how durable this would be for pasting collage onto, but I can contact her about her process if you're interested.
Using a sheet of Rives unstretched would allow you to more easily play with the composition shape if you do not want to use the rectangular format. However, I am worried that the paper buckling may distract from your work and cause hanging issues. You could try to use an even heavier paper, like tar paper, which is relatively cheap and really thick, and creating some sort of backbrace for it. Think about if you want your work flat against the wall, or if you want it lifted further off. Do you want the depth of a support or frame?
We had talked at one point about you adhering the pieces to paper and folding it up in some sort of map configuration, or some sort of mapping scroll. Is this still interesting to you?
I love the poodle!
Erica