Studio practice

 Image tiling 

I was able to successfully create a large print through my small home printer by following the manual created by Michal Tuma. This process was relatively easy, it basically consisted of creating the image as a document in adobe illustrator in the size wanted to print, within the printing section you choose the image titling option and then just print, when printing it divides your image up into A4 sections that will go together to create the large image desired. As planned I printed the image in black and white on pink paper, I chose this mainly for the visual impact of the contrast, however when looking at other paste up pieces in the city I noticed many were also just black and white images or text printed on different coloured papers, not an intended parallel yet it works. This process worked well, the only difficult part was arranging the image together but once put together it was easy to pile them in an order that would be easy to re assemble. Now I just need to paste the images onto the board. My only after thought now I've actually printed the image is I think I could of challenged myself to go even bigger.  

When choosing which image to print i chose one of some flowers on my bedside table. The image has been used before in my flowers and lies publication. I liked this image as my bedside table is a mess, i remember i took the photo just after Christmas, the flowers were an apology from my mother, she'd had these speed heads staying for months, it was weird. I wasn't do too great at the time, not dealing well with having strange people invading my home again and i think that reflects in the table. The image to me really reflects how the actions of the reason for the apology was affecting me, whilst having the big slap in the face of the apology flowers present. I also think part of the reason this image is my favorite of all the ones i have of apology flowers is because of my previous "table self" project. This interest in how we are portrayed through our tables and objects hasn't gone away, its present throughout my work no matter the subject. 



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