Here is the finished solvent transfer and silk work, titledSea Shroud. It is set up on a low plinth. I was thinking of putting it on the floor but decided…
After cutting silk up, printing on it, discarding some pieces and adding some pieces of a different type of silk, I sewed it together with single stitches of pure silk…
An Instagram-posted photo of sea, solvent transferred onto silk habotai. I like the tuft of frayed silk at the edge of the piece of sea.
Peeling the silk-sea off the photocopy-sea.
Here’s my messy workspace, set up next to the press I was printing solvent transfers with. I like the scattered birds on the table. The birds are Short-Tailed Shearwaters, or…
The silk I used for most of the solvent transfers is silk chiffon. It is so light and airy and after cutting it up into pieces to print on, it…
I got a lot out of this process of transferring photocopy onto silk. Laying the delicate silk chiffon over the birds was like laying a shroud over them. It softened…
A couple of Instagram-posted shots.
Black and white laser-printed photocopies of fish diseases were cut out into small circles. These circles were then placed face-down on a previously printed piece of paper. The paper used…
Using tea-tree oil as the releasing agent, I attempted to apply a solvent transfer to a selection of silk fabric samples using the same method used when transferring onto paper.…
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