Linoleum bitmap experiment- ''A lousy Day''
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): MARTEN PREI
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A lousy day is a colorful experiment seeking to translate a digitally constructed photo collage into the material world through a traditional printmaking technique. The project's aim is to see how a step-by-step process, through manual labor, with all its human errors and monotonous replication can slightly alter the visible properties of a previously digital image. As if some tiny mistakes were analogue glitches added to an otherwise virtual visual abstraction. The image of the print itself is built up in the CMYK color channel system which has been separated into four different bitmap layers. Each segmented and cut into linoleum plates, later printed together. Resulting in a second observation of how well a low resolution mass of pixels could be brought to the naturally observable world, yet staying with its comparatively cold and calculated precision. A bridge between technological and physical practices.
