Virtual
Workshop:
Lenticular
Quilt
Lhotka/
Schminke/
Krause
Studios,
1999
"TheARTland
Quilt/
Lenticular
Print"
36
x
36
inches
(91.4
x
91.4
cm)
© Digital
Atelierç 1999
In
1998-99
Bonny
Lhotka,
Karin
Schminke
and
Dorothy
Simpson
Krause
produced
a
portfolio
of
work
called
heARTland.
As
a
symbol
of
the
series,
they
chose
details
from
their
images
for
a
quilt
which
became
the
cover
of
a
CD
and
catalog,
a
silk
scarf
and
an
experiment
in
lenticular
printmaking.
The
quilt,
a
typically
American
art
form,
is
symbolic
of
the
artists'
decision
to
work
together,
sharing
parts
of
their
lives
and
their
art
to
make
a
whole
that
is
greater
than
the
sum
of
its
parts.
To developed their skills in lenticular imaging, the artists worked collaboratively by phone and email from their studios in Boulder, CO; Seattle, WA; and Marshfield, MA. Keeping in touch at each stage of the project the artists shared their successes and failures to incorporate this cutting edge technology into their art. Using Flip! software, a series of "pitch tests" were printed on the Roland HiFi JET to determine the lines per inch to match the lens. In this two-flip quilt, the interlacing Flip! software slices the two images into linear stripes and reassembles them. When placed behind the lenticular lens, the interlaced print flips from one image to the other as the viewer moves.
The MicroLens 40 lpi lens, a piece of plastic with a series of 40 parallel lens or lenticules per inch, was cleaned using Graphic Media Product's anti-static roller. The lens was then aligned with the printed interlaced image of the quilt and laminated together with a CODA laminator. As the viewer moves by the completed lenticular quilt, the frames "flip" from one image to the other.
Digital Atelier is a registered trademark of Dorothy Simpson Krause, Bonny Lhotka and Karin Schminke. All images copyright of the artists.