Printmaking and Breadbaking

The more a print sells from an edition (batch,) the more valuable and expensive the prints get. With the knowledge that the prints can sell as well as they do, all prints of that edition become that valuable; they rise together in value. The more bread sells from a batch, though, the cheaper the bread gets; as time goes on they keep putting it on steeper discount and just throw it away in the end. Strange.

Alright so it was the final lab of art/chem class today. We made emulsiony-type paper using chemically-type things, and exposed yon paper to UV light. The parts of the paper which were blocked out, the silver nitrate did not stain upon exposure to light, and remained lighter. The parts of the paper which were not blocked out, darkeren'd. You can block the light from the paper just by placing objects on them- rayograms, were what we were doing, basically, though you could make an actual photoprint with this process by placing a negative on the paper. Pretty basic. Right? But I was all, what if I actually use masking tape for its apparent original intention, that is, masking?

[put scan of art here once you get around to it, you overworked bum!]
[alright here you go]:

The Lesser Bandage-eyed Mammalofsomedescription, all gussied up for his portrait.
Note the lighter areas where the mask of tape overlapped. That's pretty neat?

A rare, bona fide photograph of the Greater Bandage-eyed Mammalofsomedescription,
seen in the midst of its Technicolor Yawn.

The masking tape is transparent enough that some light gets through. Which can really be explored with. And it didn't pull off the image when I pulled off the tape!

Worked down there in the photolab for hours, got some interesting enough results, but there's way more ways I feel I could explore this. It feels like discovering printmaking all over again- and in a sense that IS what I'm doing, only with light instead of ink, and plates made out of masking tape. The chemicals involved aren't too hard to come by, and people set up darkrooms in their lavs all the time. But for now, really, if I'm doing any DIY printing, I'm going to be first experimenting with making my own silkscreen screenprint printscreen.