Developing my spreads for my booklet....

I saw some amazing Japanese artwork in a book called 'Japan: Season by Season' today. What appealed to me was the graphic quality of the flat colour and the use of silhouettes and small amounts of detail. I realised this is what I've been using a lot in most of my prints. Maybe it'a just the nature of the process, I really feel like I've found a style though!

Inspired by the big paper, set design like work of Daniel Kelly and the installations of Thomas Kilpper, I have decided to make some fabric prints of my work. As I was photographing my prints and thinking about the map idea, I thought that sections of the images could look great blown up really big and could create an environment that reflects diferent areas of LP. Printed onto fabric, these could be wall hangings that could be put up temporarily in different spaces, for example a class room for UNESCO educational days, to help evoke a sense that you could be in the town itself. Here is the result of one print after scanning sections, piecing together and blowing up images from my silk screens.

                                     

I have been working on more considered pieces, some of which I think could become posters. They focus on different areas of Luang Prabang: The temples and monks, fishing trade, the myth of the hermits creating Luang Prabang, Mount Phou Si (sacred hill) and the night market. Here are the pieces and closer details (which could form part of an educational publication)...