old tech

keeping on with the explorations.brought out a screen flashed with my beloved print gocco.

guys, i shleped it around akiba on my first trip to japan.my tokyo frined took me there but didn't want to have anything to do with the situation, the purchase and the whatevers. being japanese she abstained from something she wasn't familiar with. i vaguely remember akiba then other than it was extremely noisy, all the stores with blaring loudspeakers each one advertising a different thing with a different tune.flash forward and on my second trip i realized that i had visited the otaku paradise in the heydays in early 90's. nothing to do with the civilised over turisty place nowadays.

i still have usable old flashed screens.

the problem with gocco is the consumables, the bulbs are not found anywhere,the inks are no big deal as you can swing it with other heavy body inks. i need to make friends with a tatooer, as they use a similar technology to make tat flashes.surface designers know them as thermo-fax.

or you can spend your cash buying a risograph printer which is a print gocco on steroids.full circle oi?

all those wonderful pre burst of the bubble gadgets that went out of production. brother knitting machines case point.

 

proof of concept: thickened bengara on  taninn stamped heavy cotton

the print didn't come out crisp bcse of the thick weave cloth. to be tried on a tight woven cloth.

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more testring

a scrap that was stamped with puff paste.i must be a late bloomer as now i am working with lots of concepts gained from last year's maiwa course.keeping with bengara explorations i stenciled some on it, not a bad outcome. but what if i push it a bit more?

dipped for 15 mins in the indigo vat.great news, neither the bengara nor the puff paste dissolved in it.the vat is still perfectly usable the bengara and puff paint are stable under exremely alkaline scenarios. seems that life is good.

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sweet

an old screen i had,masked with clear contact paper.the thrill it was to find clear contact paper 15 years ago!icut the mask never to be removed from the screeen and so it has been. it has been my somewhat standard print OMG since 2010! so the contact paper find was in that year.

have been mulling using it with thickened natural dye pastes.as a starter i am using thickened bengara. was somewhat hesitant bcse being a pigment didn't know if it was ginded finely enough.

no problem. the year of understanding bengara.

the rest of summer 024 is going to be fun with dick and jane.

bye bye june, the month of no sunlight.

neki desu 

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