Making this larger piece on my own was going to prove a logistical challenge. I decided to scale it up 5 times, largely because this is the largest I could cut the pieces on the laser cutter.
I was also limited by budget as Perspex is expensive.
And I am just OBSSESSED with this pink. I am going to use it in my screen-print process too and have it as a strong primary colour choice for my installation; it sits well within the themes I am exploring and is just fucking delicious.
‘pink-blue’ Kapwani Kiwanga uses Baker Miller pink.
‘Kapwani Kiwanga’s work often manifests as installations, sound, video, and performance. She intentionally confuses truth and fiction in order to unsettle hegemonic narratives and create spaces in which marginal discourse can flourish. As a trained anthropologist and social scientist, she occupies the role of a researcher in her projects.
Her methodology includes fashioning systems and establishing protocols as in scientific experimentation to delineate lenses through which one can observe culture and it’s characteristic propensity toward mutation.’
SOURCE: Kapani Kiwanga website
‘A hue now associated with innocence once had a murkier meaning: Kelly Grovier looks at the ways in which pink has represented violence and seduction.
Pink is a double-edged sword. While red is raucous and racy, and white is prim and pure, pink cuts both ways. Long before the word “pink” attached itself to the pretty pastel shade of delicate carnations, as we define the term today, the London underworld enlisted it for something rather less frilly or fragrant – to denote the act of stabbing someone with a sharp blade. “He pink’d his Dubblet”, so reads an entry for the word in a 17th-Century dictionary of street slang used by “Beggars, Shoplifters, Highwaymen, Foot-Pads and all other Clans of Cheats and Villains”, describing a lethal lunge through a man’s padded jacket, “He run him through”.’
SOURCE: BBC article
‘Baker–Miller Pink, also known as P-618, Schauss pink, or Drunk-Tank Pink. is a tone of pink which has been observed to temporarily reduce hostile, violent or aggressive behavior. It was originally created by mixing white indoor latex paint with red trim semi-gloss outdoor paint in a 1:8 ratio by volume.’
