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MY WORK WITH WOODBURY-PROCESS In 1994 I began to use digital technology to carve photographic relief surfaces that could be printed in a manner similar to the 19th Century Woodburytype. To describe my work, I use the term Woodbury-process so as to credit Walter Woodbury with the concept, and to also distinguish it from his original patented chemical process, the Woodburytype. The steps I use to create a Woodbury-process image are: 1. Create a photograph on film. 2. Digitize the negative and technical preparation in Photoshop. 3. Transfer the digital file to a carving machine (home-made hardware and software). If greyscale is held at 256 levels, the depth of carving can vary between .064" up to .640" as desired. Mechanical resolution is limited to 4000 dpi, size to 16 x 20 inches. 4. After carving, make molds of the relief surface. In one variation of the process, the molds can be made "positive" to produce dimensional relief substrates of ceramic, plaster, or epoxy. 5. Print from the mold onto the final substrate. This step is actually more like casting because quite a bit of material can be poured into the mold. Depending on how much of the solvent leaves the finished print, the image can be made flat or dimensional. For more information on this process, click the "Link to Info" button at left. It will take you to a detailed illustrated article about the process.
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Nicolai Klimaszewski
Photography / Printmaking / Sculpture
klimko.com
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