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The documentation continues in February!

I borrowed some screens from Tanner via Catherine. No more reclaiming, all daily efficiency!

I met with a guy from ShatterBuggy who gave me old busted iPhone and iPad screens to experiment on over the weekend. I was getting some weird peeling and lack of grab on the part of my inks on glass but I think they turned out pretty cool as a side project.

I played with some substrates Catherine and Deb gave me to discover that frosted mylar is EXTRA nice! Couldn't be more excited to try and snag rolls of this stuff through the BFA mini-grant. I was surprised to find that it adds a wild level of dimensionality to the colors themselves. I'm most excited about the transparencies changing and shifting as you walk from one side of them to the other, not to mention what kind of effects different lighting situations could produce. I like viewing the print from the glossy side and printing on the frost (back) so before I reprint all these huge calendars again (fingers crossed as hell!), I may need to re-burn them into my screens backwards. 

The daily printing/documentation is getting spiritual to say the least! Now I'm not transcribing a tome of data, I'm keeping a journal - touched with love per diem. It's ritualized, as compulsive as doing those 6 things I love to do are. The daily routine of marking them on my calendar was one thing, but this feels better and way more rewarding. It's done wonders for the quality of my prints themselves. I don't exactly miss printing 20 liquors and 13 gyms at once just to catch up. Screens don't dry; I'm in and out in an hour.

February is a cleaner month. Execution and activity-wise. You can see it!