RE: possible answer to archivalness comparison between carbon gum andpt/pd

[Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Sandy King wrote:
> I consider it best practice to work toward maximum image permanence with any 
> given process. Why would one do otherwise?
Sure... but we do get sidetracked and/or hung up on topics like which is 
more archival gum or platinum... And your reservations here remind me to 
point out that, having moved with "artists" (as a painter myself) for the 
first 20 or so years of my "professional" life, I never heard one of them, 
in small support groups, large seminars, panel discussions, lectures, 
symposia, personal appearances, whatever whatever whatever, so much as 
tiptoe around the topic of "archivality."

It wasn't a topic and it wasn't an anxiety.

Judy