ESSENCE
Essence is the study of natural colour extracted from a variety of plants - spinach seeds, beet root, clitoria, cabbage, chilli, dragon fruit, tomato, onion skin, tumeric and pandan. It has been conducted towards the process of decolorisation and fabric dyeing. This project aims to investigate the sustainable energy resources. The finding was presented as an installation at White Canvas gallery, KBU International College. This is a booklet that designed to document the process and the exhibition.
Subject Matter
The natural colour of plants
The natural colour of plants
Title
Essence - The Study of Natural Colour
Essence - The Study of Natural Colour
Concept
Laboratory and experiment
Laboratory and experiment
Exhibition Period
6th November - 12 November 2012
6th November - 12 November 2012
Venue
White Canvas, KBU International College, Malaysia
White Canvas, KBU International College, Malaysia
Introduction
“ESSENCE” is a project about the study of natural colour from plants. Throughout the process, a variety of plants have been experimented by extracting the colour pigments from the leaves, flowers, roots as well as fruits of the plants. It has been conducted towards the process of decolorization as well as the effect of different mordant in the process of fabric dyeing using the extracted colour pigments. The experiment is carried out using household materials and other objects that can be found easily.
Experimentation and Exploration of Media and Material
All the illustrations of the posters were created by scanning the real objects with scanner.
Each of the illustrations was formed by moving the object while the process of scanning are in the progress.
Below are the original image before edit.
