Framing

I have various different sized frames, and am just in the process of deciding whether to fit the work to the frame, or having a harmony of sizes within the frames. Now it's just finding practical and ethical solutions to framing - ethical in that solutions must agree with the concepts and ideas in my mind, and match my internal checklist of framing standards drawn through experience.

There are many ways I could subvert the framing and size conventions, but none have as yet struck me as integral to this work. I want the viewer to be drawn in to the layers of imagery and not to be distracted by the form or formation they appear in - that is all within the work.

13th October 2014

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I have made framing part of the work, using a variety of frames, including remade windows, which are definitely not an invisible setting, but are developed as part or an extension of the stills they show.

Here are some frames I made earlier:

Eleanor MacFarlane. Myriad. 2013

Framing is a setting, and can be a paradigm or frame of thought, even in art. By placing works in glass frames and displaying them on walls, we convey to them a value and worth. Framing also has psychological meanings, when we see though and understand concepts through a frame of reference, and reframe our views and attitude when we take on information. I think these ideas fully apply to art and the actual process of putting work in a frame. 

I discussed framing during a recent MA task:

http://eleanormacfarlane.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/task-6-student-texts-and-seminars.html

I have really enjoyed the framing work and process with the Embedded stills, even though working on the windows was a bit appalling. Will document and post images.

11th November 2014