Paulus swop 2

Straight from my swop tutorial with Paulus I feel weird. He was pretty tough with the duotone prints [as he was went I talked about that intention in the first crit.] He is not convinced by them at all, especially with the graveyard photos. He talked about the problems of cliches and that is totally fair. He doesn’t see any particular link in the thinking between having those photographs, wanted to print them and the duotone silkscreen process. I think there is a link that I can make it clear, and given that the feedback on the prints at Sadhna’s crit on friday was generally pretty good I think I shouldn’t give up with them. However I need to write a robust reasoning for using the duotone to reproduce those photographs. It will need to contain:

1. analysis of the effect of the printing in the experiment
2. an analysis of the intention of the photographs
3. specific reasons that the effects of the printing compliment the photographic intentions
4. the purpose of the final prints

We also talked about the design within parameters book, however didn’t really get as far as the book just a more general talk. Paulus was trying to find possible links between the two projects to help me with the prints. He was much more interested in the situation of the custom hats. In particular he was interested in the way the hats re-approached the cliches of american high school sportsware. That was not something I had contiously thought about with that design, though I am sure it is largely the reason for the design of the deluxe hat.

Anyhow after writing this I feel a bit better about it all. The problem is that I feel both times I’ve seen Paulus I’ve come across as an idiot and that pisses me off because it means I was being one.