Re: Wrinkled Prints

[Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Ritab19106@aol.com wrote:

> Hi Judy,
>
> Thanks, as always, for trying to help me.  I'm not sure I understand 
> your question above, though.  Ultimately I will present the paper 
> floated on a mat, and hinged to the back mat.  But that won't have any 
> effect on the excessively wrinkly look of the prints, so perhaps I'm not 
> getting what you're asking... .

I gather then that you plan to dry the print in such a way that it will 
assume a wrinkled, but *artfully* wrinkled format, which will be installed 
as almost, or in a certain sense a print+sculpture to be floated on mat. 
Or maybe a 2 and 1/2 dimensional print?

I suppose folks do things like that all the time, and their prints balance 
in uniquely charming configurations ad infinitum. That may require a 
special gift, or two of them, which I lack.  First would be deciding which 
wrinkle set satisfied me, at lest pro tem, in which I would probably do a 
workshop on wrinkling paper, with never-ending fascinating studies of 
materials and means. The next would be, say 6 months later when I 
discovered it had completely rearraanged itself, because I had absolutely 
no memory of that long crease across the bottom, which I HATE and would 
never have done -- probably the humidity.

So Rita, apologies, I will say no more, except to admire your sang froid. 
And though this may sound wise cracking,I assure you it is absolutely 
sincere.(PS. But even MY wrinkles change with the humidity, though that 
could be part of the artwork, like Helene Aylon's process work of the '80s 
or maybe it was the '70s, that changed over time.)

Anyway, it sounds terrific. Will you tell us when you figure it out?

cheers,

Judy