2% Milk

‘2% Milk’
CMYK Screen-print (2009)
(28 x 15 cm)

[Took me a while to upload this post, only 12 years late]

For anyone interested in the basics of CMYK screen-printing this is a fairly easy to see example. All the 4 layers are clearly visible and as the original image was predominantly a darkish blue then most of the information is in the Cyan & Magenta layers.

Here is a comparison of a finished CMYK print (right) next to a CMY version without the black layer printed yet. Once the black layer is printed, even thought quite faint it pulls the whole image together.

The screen-print was printed in 2009 while studying at Bath School of Art. Given the small size of the print it makes it easier to line up the layers more precisely.

Original photo taken in Toronto, Canada in 2007

Sarajevo Winter Olympics Track – Bosnia

This is the Bob-sled and Luge track used during the Sarajevo Winter Olympics’ of 1984, in Bosnia (At the time this was still Yugoslavia)

The site continued to be used for competitions during the late 1980’s but became abandoned after the Yugoslav Wars broke out in 1991, shortly followed by the Bosnian War in 1992 which was directly linked to the Siege of Sarajevo. This is considered the longest siege of a city in modern times, leaving the civilian population cut off from the world for almost 4 years, and sadly leading to many needless deaths. The track was used during this time as an artillery point and the surrounding facilities received damage, although the track remains surprisingly intact, bullet holes are evident in a few structures in the surrounding area.

It’s quite an uneasy feeling to walk along the track knowing at one point in time the track would have been lined with thousands of excited spectators, then a few years later the location of a devastating and terrible war. Now nature is slowly taking back the area as the forest grows up around the track.

Photographs taken in 2018

Kyoto – Funda-in Temple

‘Funda-in Temple’

This is part of the better known Tofuku-ji Temple in Kyoto.
(Image transfer from b/w laserjet print, water colour, and yarn).

Original photograph taken by me in Jan 2020.

Temples and Shrines of Kyoto

Exploring Kyoto – From earlier this year (Jan 2020)

Japan – City Life

Exploring Osaka and Kyoto – Jan 2020

Takedao Abandoned Railway – Osaka

The old JR Fukuchiyama Line that follows the Mukogawa Gorge, a short train ride out from Osaka. You can walk for about 6km along the old track and through the long tunnels.

Exploring the temples at Angkor Wat area

Crossed the Thai/Cambodia border at Aranya Prathet/Poipet which was complete chaos and really confusing. It was so busy that maybe if you timed it right you could probably walk straight through and know one would notice…but got a Visa and paid the mandatory 100 Baht bride to enter Cambodia.

After arriving in Siem Reap I was very lucky to spend one day at the ancient and massive Angkor Wat site. Initially built as a Hindu temple in the 12th century, then converted to a Buddhist temple at a later date. Quite strange to think that at the same time in Europe the end of the Middles Ages were approaching, such different paths.

Exploring Chernobyl and Pripyat City, Ukraine

A few photos from my recent trip out to Chernobyl! Taken in Nov 2015, during a short trip to Kiev. Chernobyl is about 2hrs drive from the Capital and you have to pass through a few security zones, 30km and then a 10km zone.