All Outputs (55)

Don't give them fire! (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

The title ‘Don’t give them fire’ refers to the myth of Prometheus. Prometheus's most famous act was his theft of fire from the gods. According to the myth, Prometheus took fire from the workshop of Hephaestus (the god of fire and craftsmanship) and g... Read More about Don't give them fire!.

Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants (2023)
Journal Article

Two of the most significant cases of extant 16th-century featherwork from Mexico are the so-called Moctezuma’s headdress and the Ahuizotl shield. While the feathers used in these artworks exhibit lightfast colors, their assembly comprises mainly orga... Read More about Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants.

RGB colour printing and halftoning for the reproduction of structural colour images (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Commercial CMYK halftone printing involves additive and subtractive colour mixing that requires the optical mixing of primary colour hues using different-sized dots to obtain variations in reflected colour.
Structural colour, as seen in nature, such... Read More about RGB colour printing and halftoning for the reproduction of structural colour images.

Near and far: An exhibition of artworks made by the printmaking staff at the University of the West of England (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

The exhibition by printmaking staff at the University of the West of England has become an annual event. At the end of the last exhibition the next one seems far away. But time flies and suddenly March is very near again, and panic begins. The theme... Read More about Near and far: An exhibition of artworks made by the printmaking staff at the University of the West of England.

The Tartan Ribbon or further experiments of - Maxwell's Disappointment / Sutton's Accident (2023)
Journal Article

On 17 May 1861, James Clerk Maxwell delivered a lecture at the Royal Society where he demonstrated, using a lantern slide projection, his theory for colour perception in the human eye via the additive colour process known today as RGB. Three images f... Read More about The Tartan Ribbon or further experiments of - Maxwell's Disappointment / Sutton's Accident.

Moonlight (2023)
Journal Article

The moon is the biggest object in the night sky. Its light has always fascinated. That special quality of light invites all kinds of superstition, from the healing power of the waning moon to good luck during full moon, from disabled children to pots... Read More about Moonlight.

Maxwell’s disappointment and Sutton’s accident (2022)
Journal Article

It has almost become somewhat of an urban legend or internet myth that James Clerk Maxwell created the first colour image and had demonstrated this at the Royal Institution in London in May 1861. He did present something, but what? In ‘The scientific... Read More about Maxwell’s disappointment and Sutton’s accident.

Bristol print innovators make a strong impression (2022)
Journal Article

Co-produced with science journalist Joe McEntee, this short film features interviews with the director of the CFPR, Carinna Parraman, Susanne Klein, Shaila Afroj and Tavs Jorgenson about the curent research into Woodbury-type printing, e-textiles and... Read More about Bristol print innovators make a strong impression.

Kolekcja Mini Print Cantabria W Lublinie (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

The Big Print (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

The BigPrint workshop is a communal event. We have invited printmakers, friends and family, students and the rest of the work to cut lino plates. There is no brief what should be on the plates. Everyone is free to choose a topic and a style. On the d... Read More about The Big Print.

Catching the light (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

Every image catches the light. Light is what we see. It is an energy which only forms an image in our heads when it interacts with our environment and is translated in our brains into a fantasy of the
world. How do we catch such an elusive entity?... Read More about Catching the light.

I am just passing through (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

Covid has reminded everyone that our lives are finite. It made me reflect on what I will leave behind. I want to be remembered. I want to leave visible traces which are typically for me, even though I am just passing through. Lockdown made me return... Read More about I am just passing through.

Catalogo V Mini Print 22 (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

A new edition, the fifth!... It has been a long road...
A road that, when traveling, suddenly and dramatically became
a complex and difficult journey.
In these years we have had to endure a terrible pandemic,
which took the lives of many and chan... Read More about Catalogo V Mini Print 22.

We are living in a material world (2022)
Journal Article

Review of the book Handmade: A Scientist's Search for Meaning Through Making by Anna Ploszajksi

Maxwell's disappointment and Sutton's accident (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

It has almost become somewhat of an urban legend or internet myth that James Clerk Maxwell created the first colour image and had demonstrated this at the Royal Institution in London in May 1861. He did present something, but what? In ‘The scientific... Read More about Maxwell's disappointment and Sutton's accident.

Translation (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

The theme of the present exhibition was chosen during a discussion between Ian Chamberlain and myself. Every print is at least one translation but is it worth it, or what makes it worth it. During lockdown lan had no access to a printing press and re... Read More about Translation.

Translation: An exhibition of printmaking by staff at the University of the West of England (2022)
Other

The theme of the present exhibition was chosen during a discussion between Ian Chamberlain and myself. Every print is at least one translation but is it worth it, or what makes it worth it. During lockdown lan had no access to a printing press and re... Read More about Translation: An exhibition of printmaking by staff at the University of the West of England.

Maxwell’s Disappointment / Sutton’s Accident (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

It has almost become somewhat of an urban legend or internet myth that James Clerk Maxwell created the first colour image and had demonstrated this at the Royal Institution in London in May 1861. He did present something, but what? In ‘The scientific... Read More about Maxwell’s Disappointment / Sutton’s Accident.

The Amber Project: A survey of methods and inks for the reproduction of the color of translucent objects (2022)
Journal Article

Unlike regular pigments based on selective light absorption, the so-called “effect pigments” are based on the phenomena of structural color, or selective reflectance. Structural color has appealing aesthetic qualities, such as angle-dependent hue, an... Read More about The Amber Project: A survey of methods and inks for the reproduction of the color of translucent objects.

Now you see it, now you don’t: Illusive color (2021)
Journal Article

My practise is centered around color. As a scientist I can only emphasize that color is a miracle of the mind. Without the human soul, it does not exist. I am choosing the word soul and not brain, because colour is not only generated by the interacti... Read More about Now you see it, now you don’t: Illusive color.