Hi, Helga. I hope you are still having or did have a great vacation. Show us what you sketched out for ideas and/or put together in photo collages. I also want to know more about your book arts workshop and how you came - at the same time as I did! - to an interest in making handmade books.
Here are photos of a few small watercolors I mounted to mat and frame into 8" x 8" square art. I took them from large, very free form paintings (typical of me now) and decided to isolate them for their own sake. What do you think of them matted in white, framed maybe in matte silver metal?
wonderful work, i love the colors and shapes, the lines keeping my eyes moving around the image. would love to see the big pantings before you 'vandalised' them, just to get an idea about the choices you made for your cut-outs, to grasp 'the bigger picture'....
ReplyDeletepersonally, i don't really 'get' the idea of matting and framing artwork, for me it creates a kind of distance, it makes it harder for me to relate to it, to appreciate what it communicates, i prefer to consume art 'raw' and naked...;-) i think that's what led me to experience your work as having a 'constrained abundance', it was because your images felt imprisoned by the frames you put them in, i wanted to see them in all their abundant glory, does that make any sense?