Three Initials Developed Concepts

My three concepts for my recent tutorial can be summerised as;

Concept 1: UV Exposure creating ephemeral cities

Concept 2: Decaying through overstimulation

Concept 3: Illusions/Atlas

Using Uv exposure to create ephermeral cities

Given that these cities described within the book only exist in the minds of those that read through “invisible Cities” I think it is important to consider creating a work that exists in a temporary space or goes through some sort of distorition process over time, the most effective way I can think to execute this idea at this stage is by using underexposed UV sensitive paper and then pakaging my publication within a light proof bag, leaving the paper untreated will allow for the type on the page to exist for a short amount of time, before dissapearing and fading similar to how a persons memory operates.

While i think this idea is fresh and interesting i have many inital concerns. The actual execution of this technique may not work, I think underexposing would make the work either too simple to be able to be read in time, or to underexposed to be able to be read at all. It is not possible to time which areas of the page are exposed first without the aid of a completley lightproof stencil and so thhe visuals of the page could not be appreciated, this idea in theory is good but I think that the actual real life execution of it simply does not have enough longevity.

Where I think this idea could be used is within the front cover, the cover could be very minimal as to be read easily before the expossure takes place, as well as being on the front of the book so the reader would be able to apprerciate the full extent of the exposure effect. I think the use of stencils could fix the problem, however I would need to be able to print on the UV paper without the use of any light at all, my inital ideas to do this would be using spray paint and a stencil to create simple text, this text could be painted the same colour as the paper stock so a reveal effect could be created. I think that revealing something possible using this technique, but hiding text is much more difficult and will likely lack visual impact or the effect will be missed entirely, given that the exposure time for paper stock is only a few seconds to a few minutes so if the book is opened but then placed on a shelf, it will expose withhout and audience to witness it.

An example of using spray paint to reveal ink that exists as exactly the same colour and the un exposed paper stock is shown below.

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Concept 2: Decay Through Overstimulation

Concept 3: Illusions/Atlas