The Art Life is always a mess. Scheduling ideas...forget about it. Some show up and simmer and you can work through them, others arrive like lightning bolts, insisting on immediate scrambling reaction.
I've been building frames- which is NOT art, it's a craft, but a nice one to have hanging around. I've framed several of my own shows. Been thinking about an altar for a long time, while considering image sequencing and matching... and finally side-stepped into a folding frame to hold a little series of cyanotypes.
From the back. Added a wire to go with D-rings because I needed to hang it and look at it and didn't want to fool with a major installation. The hangers all go on the slatty print backing. Easier to dis-assemble if the hangers aren't on the frame.
Here's what it looks like folded up from the front. The color is one I teased out of the pantene color strips at Home Depot pointed at Cyanotype prints. I had a print in the Texas 2020 Show at Artspace111 and it was in a blue frame. The slat-work is a print holding back- all glued together. Makes the frames much easier to reload if that comes up. It's a use for the spoils that get produced when I am making moulding.
On the wall.
This was the first run. I learned several things. When I ordered the mats I got three sets. The second frame is built and ready for plex and assembly. Four hands, four flowers, four tornadoes.
The next idea is a set of five individual frames that will be linked by hinges. I think it might work for sunflowers in silver.
It's complete insanity, of course, to make your own frames. Please don't harass me about it. I'm probably armed.
