Soft sculpture Catherine Jansen
color copier
jansen first artist extensively explore potential of electronic color copier process using electronically generated images preceded digital camera , computer technology. first scaled life room environment using process bathroom satin sink , taffeta toilet. installation part of permanent collection @ honolulu museum of art museum in hawaii.
this process using color copier, precursor digital age, evolved soft house project, five-room scaled life house environment, utilizing thousands of photographic images. while developing protocol jansen developed method photographing figure full scale on cloth, rendering three-dimensional objects on cloth. life size portrait on cloth, erika, in permanent collection @ center creative photography in tucson, arizona.
between 1971-1976 jansen awarded national endowment arts grant , 2 pennsylvania council on arts grants complete scaled life 5 room house using color copier technology.
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