They are all made of paper and bamboo, with some form of printmaking technique for the image, and I posted these blogs kind of backwards, since the more recent entries are posted first (so the order is from new entries to old entries).
Older Blog entries have a section of my thesis paper, and the very first entry has TONS of links to kite websites, so check them out!
These are some of my favorites.
This is the Dancer, which basically started the whole series off, I remade it with four replicas to be displayed as a stacked kite.
It is a woodblock image (the texture) with a washy lithograph accent (the dark red), and the frame is matchstick bamboo. (the tails are just strips of asian paper)
This is one of the kites featured in an earlier entry, What Would You Do With 88 Men?
The following is one of my favorites from the white silkscreen ink on white paper series, Flying/Falling. I was interested in the translucency of the paper interacting with the print, and the image is best seen against the light sky.
When still, it looks like a person falling hands first, but letting the wind lift it into the sky makes it seem to be swept away into the clouds, almost eerie to me.
This one was actually the very last kite I made, and it uses the translucency of the yellow paper, with a silkscreen print on the back. The image is a foreshortened person...who seems to be flying up, but the actual shape of the yellow seems really interesting as well.
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