Unexpected fun use for EAM...
2001-12-15 by antonisphoto
This one is from the whacky and wild (W&W) department: I made some piezoBW prints on 13x19 EAM to give to a group of friends involved with Burning Man (annual art and happening project in the Nevada desert). Those of you who know about this freewheeling art fest, can easily imagine that this group wouldn't do anything the expected, "normal" way. So here is what happened: They put these prints up on a wall lit purely by black light, and EAM absolutely glowed in the dark!! It looked like it was back lit and floating there against the void (the brick wall behind reflected no UV at all). You could technically see all the way to deep shadows in the prints, except, of course, it all took on this unreal air. If anyone doubts the use of optical brighteners in E"A"M, here is proof . Does reflecting all this UV make a paper more or less archival? More because UV is not absorbed, or less because the brightners will kill the paper in due time. Too bad EAM is relegated to proofing paper.Without the brighteners it may have been a better color match to the piezo inks and unbeatable for the price. But now it just acquired a whole new (dark)life! Antonis