WIP — The Loop Road Project (pop-ups)

Our recent vaca­tion gave Jim the chance to take a lot of pic­tures of motor­cy­cles and rid­ers on the prover­bial “closed course.” Some of them are in fact “pro­fes­sional riders.”

I now have tons of unclut­tered pho­tos to work with. Hence the cre­ation of a new series of work, this time in engi­neered paper.

First up:

Solo Red Bike

Not a very imag­i­na­tive name I know.

I had to remove the rider from the orig­i­nal photo in order to have a clear back­ground. Now that I’ve seen the piece assem­bled I think that I could have left the rider on the back­ground and sim­ply built the images out from there. It wouldn’t be as dynamic an image but it would have saved a bunch of time eras­ing the rider and bike and rebuild­ing the background.

Assem­bly began with print­ing and cut­ting out six copies of the rider. Tabs are attached to the fronts of 5 of the images and the base (shadow) is folded for­ward so that it will show when the rider group is attached to the card.

Here the rid­ers are attached to one another. I used a strip under the shad­ows to give the bases some­thing to stick to while I was attach­ing all the pieces. I left the strip under the rid­ers because it made glu­ing the bases down in the right spots eas­ier. (I should have got­ten a pic­ture before I glued it all down!)

Here’s the fin­ished prototype.

It was a lit­tle con­fus­ing in Mary­hill with every­one switch­ing up the bikes and rid­ers. To the best of my knowl­edge that is Tim Keene on Rolf Vitous’ pretty red record hold­ing bike. I’ll ask for the details next time I see Rolf.

I have a num­ber of other pho­tos that I’ll be using over the next cou­ple of weeks.

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