I believe in craft in art. One of my favorite teachers used to say, “He can make a painting that will last a thousand years, but he can't make a painting.
That's a different problem. Art is not craft but sometimes art comes from craft, from procedure and technique.
Frames are part of my art. I make the frames or the scrolls to match paintings.
I had an idea of the frame being an abstract work of art that serves the figurative art inside.
This year’s frames borrow from frames I made 25 years ago for the Stone Men exhibition. They are build from 9 layers to build integrity and texture. Wood, paper, plaster gesso, silver, finally urushi, cashew, and oil paint.
There is some suspense involved as you can not know what they will look like until the final layer is put on then rubbed and polished, as though it were a copper plate for an etching.
