From: Robert W. Schramm (schrammrus@hotmail.com)
Date: 02/17/02-12:06:05 PM Z
Catherine,
I wonder if the heating system dried out the air and the movement of dry air
over the plastic caused it to build up a charge of static electricity which
in turn, would have caused it to attract particles and bits.
Just a thought.
Bob Schramm
>From: Catherine Rogers <crogers@mpx.com.au>
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: Gum without glass
>Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 13:37:59 +1100
>
>Hi all,
>
>re exhibiting prints on paper without glass.
>
>Recently I exhibited some ink jet prints on Arches paper and they have come
>back
>from the gallery with an obvious deposit of dirt, bits and pieces stuck all
>over
>them - both on the image area and the bare paper area. Now the prints have
>to go
>to a conservationist to remove all the stuff before they can be exhibited
>again.
>
>I have not had this problem before. In fact, for three years now I have
>hung
>(pinned) uncovered bits of paper with ink jet prints, also vandykes and
>cyanotypes on them and recovered them at the end of the 4 weeks in great
>condition - surprisingly so since people often want to touch the surface.
>At the
>gallery where they got damaged, the curator had insisted on cutting
>perspex to
>put over each image a day after the show went up (and well before this
>problem
>was noticed), in order to protect them, as there is a high volume of
>traffic
>through the building. But that action clearly didn't help
>
>I have put the problem down to their heating system. The gallery is a large
>space with a rather ferocious heating system which seemed to to me to be
>directed onto the walls. And it was very, very hot in my opinion. Here in
>Sydney
>(Australia) I have shown photographs in galleries which don't have any
>heating/cooling at all and despite 30 degrees C. and 100% humidity in
>February
>the prints survive OK. Personally I like the direct experience of the
>texture
>and colour of the paper, image and ink, partly because the effect of the
>paper
>and print combination results in it not being clear just how the prints
>were
>made. Somehow the pleasure of the surface is lost when glass or perspex is
>put
>in front. The conservationist is sure that the problem can be
>rectified...hmmm
>
>cheers
>Catherine
>
>
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