Soft,Jelly and Translucent
Medium: Tape,
Face mask,Aluminum-plastic table,
Parchment paper printed image,
Transparent gloves,
Ruler,
Candy paper,
Bubble bag,
Film
160x240mm
190x270mm
210x295mm
2020
The flexible, stretching and bending physical features of the objects such as curtains, plastic bags, and balloons consist of our perception of “softness”. It also differs due to people’s different life experiences and ordinary senses. The “softness” described in context and audio also varies because of people’s diverse understanding of words. The form of the image only is likely to cause people to have common recognition of certain things, which is also the core principle of photography. Based on the essence of photography, this project deconstructs and recombines the dialectic relation between creation form and media.
Making Process
Material research
Transparent and soft objects: plastic bag, bubble bag, tape, aluminium-plastictablet, plastic gloves, candy paper, mesh foam packaging for fruits, shoe covercurtain, film, parchment paper, balloon, cloth material, transparent water pipeand tape, ruler, face mask, jellyfish, insects’ wings, shrimp, fins, umbrella.raincoat, rain shoe, vermicelli, lemon slice, cucumber slice and contact lenses.
Media research-Cyanotype
Many photographers created large amounts of photographic developing-outcrafts through constant exploration and practices between the mid 19t centuryand the beginning of the 20th century, including 13 crafts such as the iron andsilver developing-out method, cyanotype method, and Mamba transfer printingand plastic plate craft.
Cyanotype craft, which involves the essence of the image and shows simplecraftsmanship and uniqueness, keeps the original cultural identity and photography features.
Research on manufacturing technology
Solution A, a bottle of 500g ammonium iron citrate, solution B, 500g ironpotassium oxide, test tube, watercolour paper, bamboo brush, measuring glassand small tray.
-First, prepare solutions A and B, ferricyanide and ammonium ferric citrate.
-The two solutions, after preparation, are called solutions A and B. lt should beused as AB glue and mixed following a ratio of 1:1 into the developing solution.
-Then brush the solution evenly on watercolour paper. (good water-absorbincpieces can be used so that the developing solution is kept inside the fibreinstead of being washed away)
-After brushing with the developing solution, place the paper in the shade to dryor put it in a dark room if possible; besides photographic paper, the negativefilm should also be prepared to contact and expose the objects or print anegative image on film negatives and then attach it to the paper. Finally, press itwith transparent glass and avoid any gap. And then dry it under sunlight.
-After exposure, wash the photographic paper in water.
Transparent and soft objects: plastic bag, bubble bag, tape, aluminium-plastictablet, plastic gloves, candy paper, mesh foam packaging for fruits, shoe covercurtain, film, parchment paper, balloon, cloth material, transparent water pipeand tape, ruler, face mask, jellyfish, insects’ wings, shrimp, fins, umbrella.raincoat, rain shoe, vermicelli, lemon slice, cucumber slice and contact lenses.
Media research-Cyanotype
Many photographers created large amounts of photographic developing-outcrafts through constant exploration and practices between the mid 19t centuryand the beginning of the 20th century, including 13 crafts such as the iron andsilver developing-out method, cyanotype method, and Mamba transfer printingand plastic plate craft.
Cyanotype craft, which involves the essence of the image and shows simplecraftsmanship and uniqueness, keeps the original cultural identity and photography features.
Research on manufacturing technology
Solution A, a bottle of 500g ammonium iron citrate, solution B, 500g ironpotassium oxide, test tube, watercolour paper, bamboo brush, measuring glassand small tray.
-First, prepare solutions A and B, ferricyanide and ammonium ferric citrate.
-The two solutions, after preparation, are called solutions A and B. lt should beused as AB glue and mixed following a ratio of 1:1 into the developing solution.
-Then brush the solution evenly on watercolour paper. (good water-absorbincpieces can be used so that the developing solution is kept inside the fibreinstead of being washed away)
-After brushing with the developing solution, place the paper in the shade to dryor put it in a dark room if possible; besides photographic paper, the negativefilm should also be prepared to contact and expose the objects or print anegative image on film negatives and then attach it to the paper. Finally, press itwith transparent glass and avoid any gap. And then dry it under sunlight.
-After exposure, wash the photographic paper in water.
In this work, l use the cyanotype of western classical developing-out technology to recorothe static imade of transparent and soft obiects. Transparent and soft obiects areeverywhere. First, l am interested in their fluttering elegance, such as curtains and believethat this moment can be “frozen" and applied in art creation
Exploring cyanotype allows me to understand better the essence of classical photographyincluding negative film, exposure, and digit and paper craft. And l also have studiecphotography more systematically. The simplicity and safety of cyanotype lay thefoundation for cultivating people's interest in photography.