I have just sent off my babies to the framers.

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A big load has been taken off my shoulders, but I am still so worried about everything. The cost of framing is still weighted on me, and now I have the added dread that my work won't even sell. Having your first show, to say the least, is a big deal. Everyone will see your work, you will be exposed, and hopefully you can sell the pieces. I mean I have done commissions and such before, but this is major commitment and such a.. big deal. I feel like a layer of my skin has been taken off and will be placed on a wall for everyone to look at. I don't mind criticism I embrace it, and I love to hear the viewer's interpretation of my work as well as witnessing their reactions to it. That being said, my babies are going to be out there. No longer lying in drawers. It is work that is so personal and it really is a part of me. My skin cells are all over those damn drawings.

How I am framing them-
1) They are going to float, so that the edges will be shown. In my gallery in dA I have cut the white edges off because they were covered a bit by the clips holding the work up on my board. The edges are messy and you see my finger prints. The point of this is to show that my artwork is not outside the world and the tangible; it is entirely human. You can see how much I worked into it, and the human factor within the artwork is still present. You can still see a bit of the process and movement that went into each piece.
2) The float will be about 4 inches on all four sides. I'll get to why in a second. It is a light dove grey.
3) The frame is a one inch black wooden frame that still retains its grain.
4) So. Why all four sides of the piece the same? Isn't it better to have the bottom with an added 1/2-1 1/2 inches? Well I thought about this, and if you don't know why you generally leave a bit more room at the bottom- it is because your eye, when viewing a piece of artwork, perceives the bottom of the piece to have more weight, so there is the illusion of less space at the bottom. By adding more matt/float at the bottom, your eye feels more at ease about the piece and sees it as not being so weighted at the bottom anymore. This being said, I am doing something amazing with these pieces...

I am having the pieces framed so that on the back are two sets of hinges. Anyone will be able to hang each piece whichever way they desire. Since my pieces are so universal in how they can be viewed, I wanted to retain that opportunity to play with the perspective for whoever ends up owning the pieces. They are all signed on the back so the signature is of no issue.

I quote Georgia O'Keefe: "You wouldn't sign your face, would you?"

When it is closer to the end of April (aka when I am getting ready for my show) I will be posting a journal entry about the collection of work and what it is all about, as well as my announcement.

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