It's been a frenzied weekend, spent helping with CJ's ceramic decorating workshops in the childrens library in the Pol on Saturday, and watching Amanda's amazing filming sessions turning into a spontaneous public improvisation event on Sunday. (More of this from CJ and Amanda I'm sure.) For myself, the flag project 'Marking the City' is progressing apace, with digital scans, designs and images winging across the world from Kate Egan in Manchester to Lokesh and myself here in Ahmedabad. All of this is way beyond my rudimentary digital design skills I'm afraid, but Kate and Lokesh are both well versed in the etiquette of photoshop. Since testing the prototype print, we have been reworking and refining the designs, to give a richer and more layered quality, while trying to combine the traditional aspects of the Indian woodblock with a more contemporary digital design aesthetic. The idea is that the flags will read as a metaphor, celebrating the relationship between the old and new sections of the city, which lie either side of the Ellis Bridge (and to some extent the relationship between Manchester and Ahmedabad, known as the Manchester of India because of the cities' shared textiles heritage).
This is one of the early stages of the process, the raw material for the designs, using scanned woodblock prints digitally reworked by Kate in Manchester
One of the early designs, using a sampled floral motif, enlarged and laid over another print.
And another design (in progress) using massively enlarged detail and the full palette of colours.
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