From: Katharine Thayer (kthayer@pacifier.com)
Date: 02/15/02-03:28:09 AM Z
Hi Keith,
I was determined not to look at anything but messages from family today,
but your message was first and popped into my viewer window, and I
couldn't resist the "Say, Katherine"
The question is timely, as I have for some time been toying with the
idea of showing my work unframed, and am experimenting with an idea as
we speak, but when push comes to shove I always go on autopilot and
frame them as I always have because it's just easier than working out
the problems of doing something different. I hadn't thought of matting
and framing without glass, but that would have solved a problem I had in
2000 when I was supposed to ship some prints to Darryl Baird for his
all-gum show in Michigan the day after I delivered a one-person show.
UPS wouldn't take the glass and I couldn't get plexiglas that day, so I
gave up and told Darryl I couldn't send the work. And now, I see that I
could have solved the problem by simply taking out the glass (the work
was already matted and framed) and put the frames back on. I was just
too tired to think at that point, and as I told Darryl later, I learned
an important lesson from that: NEVER schedule two shows at the same
time, even if one is a group show and the work is already done and
framed and only has to be shipped. (This is a lesson for myself only; I
daresay younger and stronger and healthier people could schedule two or
three shows at the same time without a problem.)
My ISP has been offline off and on this week, and I have a backlog of
messages going back to Tuesday. At first I tried to work forward and
then decided I'd never catch up so now I'm working backward, but reading
only selectively, and it may be a while before I get back to the
beginning of the backlog. (I still, as a matter of fact, have hundreds
of alt-photo messages from a year ago when I was offline for a couple of
months, which I thought someday I might have time to read, but never
have.) This is a longwinded way of saying "Carry on...."
Katharine
Keith Gerling wrote:
>
> Say, Katherine, speaking of framing gum prints and gallery shows, I have an
> off-the-wall (no pun intended - on second thought, that's pretty good!)
> question for you: I love gum prints. That goes without saying. Love
> everything about them, including the surface of the paper and how the gum
> glimmers in areas where its thicker. Recently, I took the glass out of a
> couple of prints and hung them up, framed, matted, and no glass. I kind of
> like them that way. Is this a totally ridiculous concept for showing and
> selling prints in a gallery setting?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Katharine Thayer [mailto:kthayer@pacifier.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 2:35 AM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: A Process to Suit the Subject
>
> Grafist@aol.com wrote:
> >
>
> > .............................................
> > Hi Catherine,
>
> ..... you write, "Gum is so versatile you can adjust it
> > to any printing
> > aesthetic or to any subject whatever." This is a very attractive
> concept
>
> With Dick's permission I'll post some images on the B&S site to
> illustrate what I mean about the range of expression and tonal scale
> possible with gum, when I can find some time to do that. Right now I'm
> getting things ready for the gallery to meet publicity deadlines for my
> upcoming show, and then there's finishing the printing and framing and
> all that, so it won't be right away.
> Katharine
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