These are some initial working images for an idea about printing and cutting out the same suburban house to later be mounted on floating tabs for framing. The image is of my favorite suburban house. Not this specific house, but this specific architectural plan for a house.
Garage, two windows above of the same size, split level to the side with a door (hidden here due to perspective) and windows next to the front door.
I have found this same house in other suburbs in America. The landscaping and building materials change from house to house, but the structure remains the same.
These prints were made with CMYK halftone printing. I shifted the colors from print to print by playing with transparency levels in the ink and pressure/number of drops. The two perspectives of houses (garage left/garage right) were printed simultaneously, exposed on the screen at the same time. This allowed me to make duplicates with the same levels of transparency and number of drops for each pair. The final pair of mirrored prints will have the same placement of houses in each position.
I am debating framing and showing multiples of smaller grids (3x4) of houses of the same color range, multiples of smaller grids (3x4) of houses of different colors, or a pair of single large grids (4x9). I’m currently leaning toward the pair of single large grids.
