Re: sizing for gum

Virginia Boehm (gini@ix.netcom.com)
Sat, 1 Jul 1995 05:08:56 -0700

Its ok, Judy, I didn't feel attack. Maybe you are right and the starch
will make the paper will discolor in time. So far, it hasn't happened,
but I haven't been doing this for too long - I guess, since '91, and
tricolor only since late '93. Aside from a few pieces framed and
hanging on the wall (away from the sun, but I'd do that with any print
- UV can kill), my prints for the most part live in a storage cabinet
in the darkroom.

Its amazing how little the travails of those of us crazy enough to do
this stuff are understood. Last summer, when I was putting a
three-part piece together for a show, I decided to have it
professionally framed. The woman at the framing place assumed the
prints were watercolors until she saw the border with the various
layers and asked what the process was. I explained it to her, and
she shrugged, and suggested that it would have been much easier just to
do watercolors! :-)

Gini