A lousy Day is a printmaking experiment utilizing linocut and digital image modification tools to create a visual bridge between the virtual and traditional. The project aims to test how well the importation of a digital photocollage into real world would succeed if done through a step-by-step system of manual labor. That of course would include mistakes and deviations of accuracy, born from repetiton that computers rarely, if ever, would consider a problem.
And from a close up view of the print, it changes. No longer distinguishable as a surreal landscape but a mish-mash of now only a four coloured pattern of pixels.
The project is a technical continuation of my previous project √48.400 (2024) that explores a similar idea, but through a letterpress method and is monochrome in color. So this time I wanted to test printing a manual bitmap with the 4-layer CMYK colour schema.
I chose this venture as my semester-long main studio project during my exchange studies at the graphic arts department of Brno university of technology.
With distance the clarity of the image improves, which is why I had the excellent opportunity to exhibit it in a basement tunnel of Distillery, a multi-functional space for events, workrooms and happenings, for our final studio assessments.
The artwork was installed to a metal frame and put into the far end of the tunnel for the exhibit visitor to see the work from a distance to make out the overview foremost before going to see the detailed piece from up close.
