2010



’round and ’round 14″ x 9″ gelatin print

 Today I visited the Shelia Hicks exhibit at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA.  The show spans 5 or 6 exhbit rooms and includes work from the 1950’s to present.  She included work from the very small to the very large. The twisted and woven work was inspiring.  I have been working with fabric lately but not putting it into a final expression.

I have been cutting mats and framing prints.  In an effort to bring my carefree creative spirit into finishing and presenting my prints, I had box frames made and mounted several prints on the boxes.  I tried for weeks to convince myself that the boxes were going to work, but they did not.  They did not complement the prints.  So I took them off the boxes and started cutting mats and framing them the traditional way.  Luckily I used studio tac to adhere them to the boxes so the prints came off easily.  I will have to find a new use for the boxes.  I am using Crescent ragmat and it seems to dull my blades after cutting just one mat.  I have checked my guide and adjusted the blade several times.