Poetry Collaboration 4

Right, the letters are cut out and ready to make up a photo-screen.

• This was how the process worked so far:
• I cut the letters out freehand onto 130gsm paper with hand drawn lines. The letters are all about 13mm tall.
• I needed the letters to be white and the background black. The original had pencil lines from the guidelines and where I needed a little help on S's and B's and had drawn them letters in pencil first. Rather than erasing all those lines over delicately cut letters, I spraymounted the front of the work and glued it onto black paper.
• Of course it was back-to-front.
• I took this peice (60cm X 30cm) to Hobs Printers for them to scan and reverse it for me.
• Back at home I cut away the excess black around the verses and cleaned up the odd scruffy edge.
• I added the name of the poet, Edward Dillon-Robinson. I cut his name the same way, but this time kept it as black letters, scanned it myself and "hung" it from the last line.

Now I need to go back to Hobs for them to print the whole piece on acetate to make up the screen.

Then I have to make up the screen, print all the colours to go under the final photoscreening and screen the letters in various shades of mauve. A lot of work!

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