Framed works

There are many of these – Sands sees framing as a way to finish and finesse a work, similar to how Robert Mapplethorpe made framed photo objects at the beginning of his career before he hit on B/W photography as his ‘horse drawings’ or work system. These vary in size and are professionally made or bought at shops like HEMA or Xenos (Sands’ favourite art supply store in ways). Once Sands gave Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens a framed image of himself, an early selfie before digital photography, and in the group they were in of art world people a student asked, “Did you make the frame?” Trying to figure out where the “art” part was… :-) – SMW. More These vary in size and are professionally made or bought at shops like HEMA or Xenos (Sands’ favourite art supply store in ways). Once Sands gave Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens a framed image of himself, an early selfie before digital photography, and in the group they were in of art world people a student asked, “Did you make the frame?” Trying to figure out where the “art” part was… :-) – SMW.

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