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A lenticular print is made by placing an "interlaced" image, (cut
and reassembled in vertical strips), behind a sheet of plastic with
a series of parallel lens or lenticules embossed into one surface.
When the lens are aligned with the image, the viewer sees only one
frame at a time. As the viewing angle changes, each of the images
are seen in the planned sequence, creating the illusion of movement,
depth or animation.
The
lenticular "Portrait" was made by resizing and aligning vintage
photographs of a child, a young woman and an elderly woman in Adobe
Photoshop. In the software program Flip! each of the three images
was treated as an animation frame and interlaced to create the composite
lenticular portrait. The interlaced image was printed on Kimoto
white film using the Mutoh Falcon printer and the Wasatch RIP. Using
a CODA laminator, the print was aligned to a 40 lenticule per inch
(lpi) lens from MicroLens and laminated. The three photographs,
seen as a merging animation, create a sense of the aging process.
Originally
a collage, from the series Goin Home, "Bits and Pieces", was transformed
into a lenticular print with the portrait in the upper right hand
corner. In "Generations", from the Sacred and Mundane series,
the 2" square lenticular portrait is centered in an old tin ceiling
tile. "Portrait" has also been made into a 2" square lenticular
pin which is being carried by the Gift Shop of the Brooklyn Museum
of Art.
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