Digital BW, The Print

since i use the epson 2200, i call my work (fine art, photographs, 
images worked upon with PS, graphic art or scanned) "archival UC 
prints"     /    paintings are "acrylic on canvas", "mixed media on 
paper", "etching and aquatint", "watercolour on Ilford" . . . and 
drawings are "graphite on stonehenge" or "mixed media on arches" or 
"pastel on BFK"     /    simple is better as a rule     

"archival" handles many questions (it will not die in the next 6 months) 
and "UC" they will ask about if they care and "print" indicates there is 
some process between my hand and brain and creativity, some tool other 
than a hand-picked-up-and-hand-cleanable one, between thought and image 
on the wall     /    i am a purist but the world of art is no longer 
"pure", if ever it was, and yes, i consider photography as art      / 
    art comes on many levels   /    and the criteria for judgement comes 
on many levels and there can and may be satisfaction on all those 
levels      /      and i can appreciate art that i do not necessarily 
have to like      /

back to the quiet masses here who lurk and read each day, but who know 
many of you fairly well now     / jwp   


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