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More MFA Thesis research

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Part of my thesis exhibition includes a large-scale tiled work.   It was a feat of planning and to prove that there is some method to my madness or more aptly a madness to my method I have posted the key to printing and organizing the tiles.  This work consists of 49 separate tiles, with a lattice structure spanning the surface to hide the seems.  It is silk screened and laser decaled. The tiles gradually become darker from top to bottom; there is also a pattern that gradually fades into the background.  To plan this out I had to number each tile to designate what pattern section went where and what percentage of colorant is in the background slip and pattern. The first two images show the key system that I made to organize what goes where by breaking it down into sections.

Here is the original drawing of the work, done artfully in colored pencils and crayons. The other image is the computer file that was used to scale the image to the proper size; it is 70 inches tall with a resolution of 300.  It really pushed my poor Ibook to the max.  Planning this piece is maybe the cause of the gray hair I found in my beard.  The yoke has a background of screen-printed color at the leather hard stage placed onto a tile that when cut wet was 10 inches on the diagonal axis. After firing, a laser decal is fired over it.  I had to cut the 10 inch tile, scale down the image in photoshop to compensate for the leather hard shrinkage, print the background color. Fire and glaze the tile then rescale the image again to adjust for the fired shrinkage so that the decal would line up.  It hurt my brain just explaining it.  Here is a photo, courtesy of my professor Linda Arbuckle, of the work hanging in the gallery, the lighting hasn’t been finished at this point and its hard to see all the detail.

Tags: 2010, ideation, Patrick, Thesis, tile work, Unburdened
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