For this project, the student is removing the back of the mirror so that from the front the viewer can see themselves as well as the images she is transferring to the back of the mirror. This produces a Hologram effect of the image. Her idea is that you are standing at a window, looking out, as if into a dream. The dream: looking at your ideal world. We will hang the piece horizontally when finished and it will be illuminated from behind. The images that will be transferred to the back were taken with black and white film, printed and then scanned, as well as black and white & color negatives scanned and put together in Photoshop to make one large image that is the length of the "mirror". Once complete, we will print the image onto transparency film and using an image transfer technique (possibly Xlene or Acrylic Gel - still testing) she will complete the transfer to the "mirror". Here are some images of the work in progress.
First, we removed the back of the mirror with stripper. We used Citristrip which is non-toxic and environmentally friendly.
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| This is our test mirror - we tried various solutions to see what removed the back the easiest - The winner: Citristip! |
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| here you see it beginning to work |
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| This is the finished mirror w/backing removed. You can see through it, as well as your own reflection |
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