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April 18, 2005
In amongst the ashes
Like the small child scrabbling round in the hearth, I’ve been blackening my fingers tackling the charcoal and struggling with a big head.
After four days of enforced cleanliness – framing and mounting work for exhibition, I got grubby yesterday. A big head:
Not as big as the big figure below, but still big, and in fact the head is bigger than the head on the big figure, coming in at 760mm x 560mm, which is a few pounds short of a bushel. If the head were to be atop a figure I guess the figure would stand some 4.2 metres tall. [using the Greek formula that the figure stands seven heads high.] That's a lot of charcoal, not to mention a huge piece of paper.
Mounting and framing and titling and cataloguing and pricing and packing pictures are not my favourite activities. I know the importance of good mounting and framing: it shows you take yourself and your work seriously. But it’s mind-bogglingly tricky stuff, all those measurements and figures and decisions, and what shall I call it?
“Oh, I’ve already got one called that, damn!”
Posted by john at April 18, 2005 03:23 PM
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