dear ak:
my gawd! many THANKS for your info!
does indeed turn out BY CHANCE (?--"meant to be")--
do have huge lovely metal can of acetone here
still "bran-nu" as never opened
can't recall why have it
may be like abt 85% or so of my work materials "found"
"while in the line of duty"--i.e. walking abt
or at a sale of art supplies figured some day of use
--and NOW IS!
have found though for my purposes--ie. love of the corroded,
cracked, fragmented, "if it's broke don't fix it"--
(much like myself any more)
that much like effects though "poor" (arte povera/art brut?)
of the old method--makes interesting forms/traces of words/worlds
so--shall "sally forth" (always wondered who she is)
and try acetone!
funny you look at it and is: ace tone
sounds like a Fifties rock and roll singer
but say it & is "ass-ah-tone"
"adventures with language"
as old school books wd call it!
again many many thanks!
yet another thing of use in the world!
(or my corner of it--)
--dave baptiste
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, ann klefstad wrote:
> Can use acetone to do the transfers from xeroxes--so xerox images from
> newspaper etc and then transfer w/ acetone, a relatively benign solvent (much
> less deadly than some others). Also, since the advent of soy inks, the old
> solvent-transfer from newspaper thing doesn't work as well. This circumvents
> that.
>
> AK
>
> David Baptiste Chirot wrote:
>
> > sit for some time (hours) at nearest street corner to where you
> > live
> >
> > make a "traffic report"
> >
> > sit and watch sky (or lie down to do so--or stand--whatever best,
> > or change positions)--again, for some time--
> >
> > make "weather report
> >
> > note such reports not only may entail concrete particulars--but
> > also memories, dreams, reflections engendered by the events observed
> >
> > dave baptiste chirot
> >
> > PS--thank you again Patricia and Allen for the beautiful job of
> > presentation of the timepiece i had made--
> >
> > it's funny--i think the colors look brighter on the web--
> >
> > they also often come out very interestingly in color xerox
> > (ones i have tired, not these ones)
> >
> > you can make interesting works by collecting color xerox from trash
> > cans in the xerox copy places--and then you soak them, or parts you want
> > to use, with some finger nail polish remover--then rub off the colors and
> > things presented there--onto another sheet of paper
> >
> > this is another method of what is called making "transfers"--i
> > first earned how to make the ones from newspaper b and w from an
> > interview years and years and years ago with rbt rauschenberg--for these
> > you use lighter fluid to soak the paper--
> >
> > just be areful if you smoke! i do this and use spray paint a lot
> > so am always on verge of blowing myself up as seem to lose track and light
> > up--!
>
>
