I've looked into using UV paint as a representation of microbes upon objects and surfaces but haven't explored it enough to know what the result is. I used UV face paint on this photo of a light switch to see if the luminous dots looked like germs and bacteria, I think it does to an extent. The colours and luminosity of the paint work well in simulating microbes but the fast irregular dotted effect I've used does not. I now know that UV paint does work well when using it for this purpose but the execution needs to be finer, more detailed, more equal and dense.
I bought some neon marker pens so I could use them in my microbe representation experiment. I've covered this light switch image in the orange neon marker and was surprised that I like the result. The image is so simple but the texture given from the home made marks look creative, child like and strange. I like it when images are out of the ordinary, I like it when an image shows us something that we would never have seen if it wasn't for that image, this photo does that to an extent. We're used to seeing light switches looking plain and we don't think about it but when it's roughly coloured in a neon orange colour it's brought to our attention that something isn't right. In terms of the orange pen looking like microbes on the light switch I think it does this very well because the strokes from the marker look like certain types of bacteria before the slide is looked at through a microscope, examples of this are shown below.
I used orange poster paint to force my finger print onto the switch on this image. The image is simple yet has a big impact as the print is bright, easy to see, looks unnatural and therefore like it's not supposed to be there. To me the finger print does look like it represents germs on a hand being transferred to the switch but it could also be interpreted to looking like the prints after a crime scene, either way both of those situations are sinister and the image does capture that.
After the potential confusion as to what the finger print meant on the previous image I made this photo to enhance the idea of the prints representing microbes after being transferred from someone's hand. The multiple finger prints show the switch is touched a lot and the different sized prints show it's touched a lot by different people thus ruling out the crime scene story. The fact that I've used bright, colourful paint to print my finger encourages the idea of microbes as this is how they're often presented on things such as anti bacterial spray bottles and in creative photographs. I enjoy this image very much, I think it's fun to look at and holds a message that is clear to read and understand.
This is a photo of the floor near my cat bowl after I put Fairy washing up liquid on it and left it for a while then rubbed it off with newspaper. The washing up liquid has acted like bleach and removed the ink from the top of the photo revealing the fire like colours underneath. I like the effect washing up liquid has on the image, it looks like a pattern that certain microbes form when spread in a microscope dish.
I flicked paint onto this with my finger to form elongated, stretched marks to make it look as though the heavier parts of the orange splats are microbes and the trails they're leaving behind them are to represent the speed in which they travel. The original images were of the kitchen floor near the cat bowl and my front door mat.
One again I used washing up liquid to create this warn out pattern, this time I dabbed the excess liquid off by overlaying another image onto it then taking it off this is why a grainy texture has developed within the orange lines.
For this image I sprayed cleaner onto it to form small orange hollow holes that look like burns or bubbles.
This photo was of the windowsill, I then dotted paint around it and sandwiched it under another image to get the wavey, pushed paint look.
This is the image I used to press against the image above, I then sprayed it with spray cleaner to see if it'd reveal clean areas dotted throughout the paint. I like the marble effect that it brings, it has texture and reminds me of the work of Fabian Oefner with it's bright colours and obscure pattern.
For this image I dotted washing up liquid in certain places with my finger then overlaid another image to remove the excess which pulled the liquid away and left thin layers of washing up liquid that was beginning to seep through the ink.
I've learnt some new photo manipulation techniques, some very interesting, so I would like to use them again, maybe later on in this project or maybe for one in the future. I was especially pleased with how the washing up liquid images turned out as well as the spray cleaner and the post painted images after being sprayed with the cleaner.
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