{"id":10282,"date":"2017-01-05T19:55:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T00:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=10282"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:43:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:43:44","slug":"unframed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=10282","title":{"rendered":"Unframed"},"content":{"rendered":"

I detest frames, and they detest me.<\/p>\n

Whenever I try to frame my art, the universe pushes back, hard.<\/p>\n

This morning I wasted more than half an hour\u00a0trying to convert a frame with a sawtooth hanger into one with eye screws and wire. I must do this because it is a rule of display for the shows of our artist’s group – a standard used by galleries everywhere.<\/p>\n

The frame I want to use is small and slender. It has no back; it gives the impression that the artwork is floating. I want to use floating frames for several of my fused glass pieces<\/a> that have clear glass backgrounds but are too heavy for a tabletop stand. Unfortunately, the floating frames come with a sawtooth hanger.<\/p>\n

The eye screws have to be tiny – about 1\/4 inch at the width of the loop. My fingers are not especially agile and they are more than twice the width of the loop. In addition to that coordination obstacle, I have little room for error – the frame itself is less than 1\/2 inch wide.<\/p>\n

It takes more than 10\u00a0minutes to get one eye screw firmly into the frame.<\/p>\n

The second screw takes even longer. I’m not certain it will hold.<\/p>\n

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More problems follow as I try to\u00a0cut the wire smoothly, wrap it and make it taut.<\/p>\n

Eventually, running out of time, I give up. No fused glass piece of mine will be hanging in the January show.<\/p>\n

It’s happened to me over and over, with photography, with experimental mixed media, and now with glass: Wrestling my art into\u00a0frames has kept it\u00a0from public display.<\/p>\n

The message from the universe is clear as glass.\u00a0This isn’t you. What you’re supposed to do as an artist doesn’t belong in a frame.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

The frame forces my glass piece against a wall.<\/p>\n

The frame sets a boundary: This is art, this is the wall, this is the viewer.<\/p>\n

The frame creates a barrier between viewer and art.<\/p>\n

I reject the frame. Arbitrary and artificial, it contaminates my intent.<\/p>\n

I want my art to pull in the light, transmit the light. Not to sit on a wall, where it won’t disturb anyone’s daily routines.<\/p>\n

I want to make art that flows into its environment, enters the minds and thinking of the people who see it.<\/p>\n

I want to escape the frame.<\/p>\n

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Today’s penny is a 2006. That was the year I first experimented with frameless art.<\/p>\n

It’s a macro photo of a palm frond that I shot in Oman.<\/p>\n

I had a laminated print made and adhered to wood, with a stand fastened to the back. I display it in a spot where I pass it often, pick it up, and think about the elusive delicacy and sharp edges of the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I detest frames, and they detest me. Whenever I try to frame my art, the universe pushes back, hard. This morning I wasted more than half an hour\u00a0trying to convert a frame with a sawtooth hanger into one with eye screws and wire. I must do this because it is a rule of display for … read more Unframed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317],"tags":[51,35,82,927,1389,284,1390,200],"class_list":["post-10282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty","tag-51","tag-art","tag-beauty","tag-design","tag-frame","tag-glass","tag-intent","tag-light"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10282"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10323,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282\/revisions\/10323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}