Final touches

lifting the frame with photographs into place in the wall setting.

putting up curtains around room. this was something i didn't initially anticipate, though it made a huge difference in the end. the room becomes a cinema.

plans

Construction worker

Today I have sawn, sanded, drilled, nailed, lifted, stapled, measured, leveled, broken and fixed. Still too scared to take the full backing paper off until it is absolutely necessary, I got the first glimpse of about 1/8th of my work at 1am this morning.

Issues at this stage:

*Costly and time consumingly beautiful 6mm clear acrylic frame for prints didn't work as planned, so had to be constructed from timber, then covered in black fabric for a nice finish, but this works even better!

*Realized that white walls may not work. so tomorrow the walls might have to go black.

*Vinyl lettering has to go outside the room since most people can't read in the dark.

*Fluid isn't open on the weekends for coffee

But thanks to my amazing team of helpers- John for the main wall structure, Jude for showing me everything I now know about building stuff and breaking router bits, Tim and the flatmates for the pizza and D'Arcy for the lettering even though she's insanely busy and its a saturday.

The main framework going up

Lightbox testing

Cutting the timber for the frame to hold images

Wrapping frame sides in black fabric

Single image test with backing still on

I'm looking forward to tomorrow already(and REALLY should get to bed!)

p.s.. also coming along- my NEW blog site! and business cards)

waiting...

Everything is ready-almost-for installation.
The transparency is on the acrylic (applied tediously with water and a squeegie) and cut to the right size (by the amazing people at absolutely plastics) and now awaits installation, which will hopefully begin tomorrow.
The next step is building a support wall to house the lightboxes, and following that will be installing the photographs. At the moment I'm exploring either hanging them or fitting a frame with spacers around them to hold them in place.
I can't take the backing paper off the photographs yet so it is hard to determine the right spacing. working on it!

First two layers printed!

*still on their paper backing, and not yet mounted onto acrylic, but still, PRINTED!

Scaling down the big ideas

So things are on track at the moment, I have obtained the x-ray light boxes and have started to test print on adhesive backed transparency which will then be stuck on 3mm acrylic. I put out a proposal for funding which had its closure date on the 12th October, and I managed to gain enough sponsorship to cover all my costs. The price of the acrylic is higher than what I set aside for the initial PVC clear film, though I have been able to save costs in other areas (donation of light boxes from the hospital etc).

Things to do now:

-Print final images

-Attach to acrylic backing

-Plan and do scale model of wall to embed work in

-Source material to build wall and helpers who know how to use hammers

-Safety check all electronics

-Consider soundtrack?

scale plan of four light boxes and layout

Measurements of back wall of site space. The green indicates the wall I will construct to house the light boxes and images on acrylic. It frames the image, overlapping the edges slightly.

Plan B Projection into mist test

Projected my moving Odessa sequence into an area filled with 'fog' (using a glucose smoke machine) with a data projector set at ceiling height onto a large screen. The definition of the image was lost in the fog, though the colours and movement made for an interesting, immersive environment, but not in way i wanted; instead of being immersed in the scene, the viewer is only immersed in coloured light. I imagine that to achieve the definition of the image I would need to project onto a flat surface such as a water screen-more of an ourdoor big project but definitely something to work towards in future. for now the lightbox is taking priority and I'm trialing various printing options on transparency.

Light Box in SSSPACE

digitally rendered image of installation in Site space

Planning and presentation options- Lightbox

With two potential final works on the go right now it is all about seeing what is going to work and what isn't. When I initially chose this SITE space(painting studio) I had in mind an idea for a large lightbox in a pitch black room. The plan is for 4 x-ray boxes which will each be covered by a segment of the larger Odessa scene. The image will be layered up, the whole work being comprised of 5 or more layers on transparency. The transparency is available in a size large enough to cover each lightbox.


Proposed idea 4 x (500mm by 1470mm) lightboxes with transparency



Random lightbox ideas


The projection into a misted area is still a possibility, though perhaps a bit too big for my prescribed space. So maybe I will have to think outside the box.

My Odessa- short film

Step 2 Odessa from Emily Hlavac-Green on Vimeo.

SITE space measurements