Rachel's Collections

My friend Rachel collects things; dolls, hearts, photos of shoes, graffitti......

There are some great photographs she has taken on her blog, photos from her travels near and far.

Rachel is also an expert on cabinets of curiosities having made her own 'Cabinet of Hearts' which contains lost hearts, each one telling it's own story.

Frames

I walk past a framing shop everyday, outside are a rack of frames, I never really gave them a second look until about a week ago when I saw a sign on the rack saying 'free frames'!

So what happens when you frame something?

I've never really thought about frames and their influence on the art they surround. I have just read a very interesting article from the Guardian website, in it William Bailey is quoted from his book 'Defining Edges':

"The design, must effect a transition from the existing physical location, usually a wall in a room or a gallery, into the illusionistic realm of the painting. This should occur graciously and imperceptibly. The frame should also prepare the eye and mind of the viewer to accept and embrace the domain of the painting on its own terms."

Changing the frame can elivate the painting into a higher status, giving a picture a guilt frame implies that it is a masterpiece. I have always prefered plain simple dark coloured frames, like underlining a important piece of text, is it saying 'here is my art'?

Bottle Collections

whatever you collect, there will always be a webite!

Historic Bottle Collections

Manchester Hermit

Visit the Manchester Hermit blog and explore the thoughts of the Manchester Hermit, who is living in isolation for 40 days and nights in The Manchester Museum's Gothic tower.

Just been reading through this blog and the comments so far. The Hermit has chosen objects from the museum for his own Cabinet of Curiosities and he is choosing an object each day, if no one puts forward a valid reason to keep the object it will be destroyed. 

The comments on the first object, a skull, are interesting and I'm curious to see how they compare to comments about man made objects or inventions, I'm sure they won't provoke the some type of response.

I am not in favour of destroying anything (you never know when you might need it) but an object stored away in a museum vault is as good as, it may never been seen again..................

Why are the objects in the store rooms, someone thought they were worthy of being in a museum, someone else has decided that they aren't as important as other objects