Studio Work

 

Today I took a break from woodcutting to take care of something else- framing.  I know that the next Tenant show starts going up next week, and the Open Studio event is two weeks from Sunday, which meant that I had to deal with this sooner or later.  Last week I finished making new labels for the backs of the frames (making changes to a label format document from the last show) and a few days ago I sent Jeanne the information about works I intended to show.  Since I couldn't include images in the email, I just posted everything to an old blog post I wasn't using and sent her the link.  I guess she didn't see it, as she mentioned photographing my new works for the show.

I saw her car in the parking lot, so the first thing I did was take the three new prints for the show to the office and allow her to photograph them before I put them behind plexiglass.  She did so, using her phone.  (my phone is a phone, my camera is a camera, and that's how I like it)  I brought the prints back to my Studio and got to work.  

On top of my table were the three framed prints from the last show, and I have been moving them off the table every day that I worked there, and then putting them back upon leaving.  Today I took them off the table for good.  One at a time, I took apart each frame, removed the old print, taped down the new print, signed it, put everything back together, and put the new label on the back.  Took care of all three framed prints that way, inserting the new prints into the old mats and frames.  Results can be seen in the above photo, taken with a camera.

The next step was to go back to Jeanne and see if she is willing to hang my prints, or at least find someone to do it, and she said yes.  Then the last thing was to see when she wanted them delivered.  I offered to hold them until next week, but she insisted on receiving them today, so I went back to my Studio, got the new framed prints, and brought them to the office.  Those framed prints will be out of my Studio for a while, and will eventually go up on the wall on the 1st floor.  Meanwhile, I put stuff back on top of my table before leaving, but not those prints.  

For music I had something bluesy, an album called Blue on Blues featuring half songs from Charley Patton, and half songs from Blind Lemon Jefferson, two ancient bluesmen from the era when everything was acoustic.  Still not sure why this was mixed in with my loose discs and not on the blues shelf, but it was, which means I have access to it today in my storage box. I had also planned to play a label produced cassette blues related, but the little pad that presses the tape to the tape head had come loose, which seems to be a common problem for these label produced cassette tapes that date back to the 80's, when I was buying such things.  I think I managed to glue it back into place, but I'll listen to another time and find out.