Wallpaper Portrait #1
(Portrait taken with wallpaper printed onto wallpaper.)
I bought a roll of flowery twee vinyl wallpaper from a charity shop a few months ago, I had no idea really what I would do with it. I also found a roll of woodchip (mmm…nice) and the material possibilities were exciting, it fired up my imagination.
I wondered if I could print a close up photo of the wallpaper onto a piece of wallpaper, how it would come out. Not that exciting as it happens.
Still, I got to mess around with the wallpaper a bit, and took some photos. Thinking on the subject of portraits, I asked my man to pose with a strip of this wallpaper, to wrap it around him. I printed it onto a strip of the wallpaper.
My home printer is an ancient Lexmark that’s in need of replacing. Initially I was disappointed with the print, the ink had coagulated and separated in some areas due to the vinyl. The photo is soft and smudgy but I think that makes it more intriguing; it was an unexpected result. It’s like when you look at something through squinted eyes.
If I took a wet cloth to it I could wipe the image off clean, so it’s existence itself is a bit shaky.
