We spent much of the morning today making the blueprints having finalised the designed and printed them onto two sheets of a3 acetate per blueprint (triple layered). Me and Faysal coated the paper with the UV reactive chemicals yesterday, allowing 24 hours to dry so that they were ready for printing this morning. We took the paper in a lightsafe box over to the textiles department and used their UV light press machine which was great, we stuck the tripled up acetate to the glass face down, then when we were happy it was all matched up we put a layer of the coated paper on top and closed the lid. We used the built in vacuum press which compacts the layers down dead flat onto the glass and exposed it for 3 minutes 10 seconds to the UV. The paper is then transported back in a lightsafe box for 10 minutes of washing under cold water before being hung to dry (see images for the illustrated process).
We first did a test to make sure it was all working okay which came out perfectly before proceeding to print all three full size blueprints. They have come out so well, so much better than I thought they would and i'm pretty chuffed we've managed to set about and complete this process to give us some authentic, original documents that play an integral role in the narrative of the installation. Since I first researched and proposed this idea I've been hoping we could follow it through to completion and it has proved extremely satisfying; I think its fair to say we're all really pleased with the results.
We spent the rest of the afternoon building the praxinoscope.
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