Recently I visited a blog having a discussion about how printing on fabric is not creative.
Yikes I thought!
When things went digital, my work expanded ten-fold! I could do so many more things than I ever dreamed of. I married my interest in photography with my love of fiber.
I think working digitally IS a creative tool. Not only must you have an eye and take intriguing photographs. You need to know how to interpret this into fiber, then your vision can show. You can then leave the photo as is, manipulate it in a variety of ways ( much like you could do in the darkroom), layer them, fuse them with other photos, tile them, collage photo's, draw into to them using a digital pencil. And more. It is a vast field.
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| plain rice paper |
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| painted rice paper |
Not to mention deciding how to print them. What cloth or paper to use. Add a digital underpainting, or not. Print on painted or plain substrate. Print on a collage made from cloth, paper, or tea bags. Endless!
THEN when they are printed, you can go forward with creation. Stitching, adding mediums. collageing, layering with transparent media. Cutting apart and re-sewing- any number of options.
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| Ink Jet Printed Fabric Collage from my Dig it ALL, Digging into Digital Printing Workshop Photo Shop tools are digital paint brushes! It is a very creative technique- much as any surface design technique is! You can take it and run with it! "It's how the artist uses the media to interpret the subject matter that makes it art - not the media used to get there." Jayne Gaskins |
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