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Playboy Girl
colour xerox on acetate, 1974
8 x 5.7 x 1.5 cm
Interesting accident! And fortunately, without damage to the machine.
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Playboy Girl |
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In the early 70's, I had access to a then very
new and very expensive colour Xerox machine courtesy of Xerox
Corporation. I confess that I inadvertently used sheet
of the incorrect type of acetate to create what I intended to
be a transparency of a photographic image. The machine's heater,
designed to fuse the colour inks, also softened the acetate,
resulting in this shrunken but dimensional object. It shrunk
from 8 1/2 inches to 3, but at the same time thickened to about
1/8 inch and curled to become three dimensional. The deposited
inks were transformed in the same way. So the fingers,
etc. became raised and thickened like a relief sculpture.
Interesting accident! And fortunately, without damage to the machine. |
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