From: Devon John (tbidjohn@mindspring.com)
Date: 03/23/02-11:13:57 AM Z
Cutting your own mats can be fun, but only if you know what you're doing and
don't mind a bit of measuring. Honestly, sometimes framers can do a better
job (it is the only thing they do after all), and if finances weren't an
issue, I would have a good framer do the work for me. As long as there's
open communication between the artist and the framer, you're not messing
with the "vision" of the work, so there's not a problem.
Devon
> From: "Gregory W. Blank" <gblank@bellatlantic.net>
> Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:24:50 -0500
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: Framing?
>
> I frame my own work however it, in my opinion is no crime to have someone
> else who is capable to do the matting & framing. Cost is my reason,....if
> time was then I would have it done. I hate cutting mattes!!! But it beats
> spending lots of bucks if you are doing a show. I don't cut glass I get that
> precut and ground on the edges.
>
> I buy "kit" frames from Light Impressions....I usually buy them in bulk so
> the price is reduced.
>
>
> on 3/22/02 1:33 PM, epona at acolyta@napc.com wrote:
>
>> Hi y'all,
>>
>> All this discussion on archival mounting got me thinking.... Do you all
>> frame your work yourselves? Am I being incredibly lazy by going to a
>> framer's? Does it detract from the artwork to have it framed
>> professionally, instead of by the artists's own hand? I've tried, and I
>> can't cut a matt to save my life, never mind about the space needed.
>> Just curious.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christine
>>
>> --
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
>> It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this
>> emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and
>> stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."
>> -Albert Einstein
>>
>>
>>
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