Consisting of hand - painted images derived from the vernacular photos, the paintings bear a captivating surface of
mica sheets and gold, silver, copper, and palladium metal leaf.
In Dazzle Paintings series, photographs chronicling the mundane goes through a process that involves painting the image onto
mica sheet infused with metal leaf alongside reflective materials like copper, silver or gold underneath.
Not exact matches
The
mica group of
sheet silicate minerals includes several closely related materials having highly perfect basal cleavage.
The highly perfect cleavage, which is the most prominent characteristic of
mica, is explained by the hexagonal
sheet - like arrangement of its atoms.
Fourth, Henderson and Sparks, while doing their pioneering work on isolated polonium halos in 1939, made an important discovery: they found that the centers of those halos, at least those in the biotite «books» they examined, were usually concentrated in certain «
sheets» inside the biotite.65 (Biotite, like other
micas, consists of thin «
sheets» that children enjoy peeling off as if the layers were
sheets in a book.)
In the works, Hammond layers hand - painted images with
sheets of
mica and metal leaf, creating an alluring surface that shifts with different vantage points and surroundings.
Ink,
mica flakes, pressure sensitive synthetic polymer
sheeting, cut and pasted printed paper, painted paper, and synthetic polymer paint on paper Diptych, overall: 59 1/8 x 85 inches
Wangechi Mutu, Yo Mama, 2003; ink,
mica flakes, pressure - sensitive synthetic polymer
sheeting, cut - and - pasted printed paper, painted paper, and synthetic polymer paint on paper; overall 59 1/8 x 85 inches.