2nd part of the adventure of making exhibition : The Dublin Library tour. Tour started yesterday, where all my troubles seemed so far away.. well on the 3rd september 2008, i hanged my paintings in the dolphin’s barn library. The main issu was to make something easy for installation, removing, carriage, waterproof (why waterproof ?… hey, we are in ireland guys !) and so on… My old technique of cartels-lino was a brillaint stuff. But, they seemed to suffered with last time removal. This time, i thought about something more rigid, waterproof and wich can be easily moved.
Recipe : The Irish Cartel.
Recipe of a very well unknow kind of cartel : smart and quiet cheap (1 euros each).
ingredient :
- Â Â Â A “2 eurosuros” sho, or pound shop or 2 dollards shop whatever you are.
- Â Â Â D.I.Y shop (woodies…).
- Â Â Â A personnal comuter with a printer linked.
- Â Â Â A drawer full of unusefull stuff, we always think they will be usefull once day. (maybe today is this day !).
1. First of all, go into this 2 Euros shop and grab some picture frames, as much as you need. The smallest size i found was the 10 x 15 cm (4 x 6in). I get these for 2 euros/4 pieces.
2. Leave this shop to another one (yep, today is your shopping day, take some bread for tomorrow morning by the way). Go to the nearest D.I.Y shop and grap some of this famous double-faced tape. (mine was a duck tape, the tape for the ducks).
3.Back home, put the bread in kitchen and take pair of scissors and turn on your computer.
4.DO your custom design and print them on paper. They would fit perfectly the frames if you set the good size but i guess you made it right.
5.Print them, cut them, frame them just like pictures and have a glance at your stuff : woah !!
6.Here is the most diffuclt part : to make the cartels stick to the board. The issue is theses little small clips at the back of the frame (see picture). Here is the moment for serching for the good thing in this famous drawer full of unusefull stuff. You need something half centimeter thick to stick on the back of the frame. I use polystyremene encasement in my case, wich are lightweight, and thick enough, and sliced into small parts. Two piece of double tape on each side and ready for sticking. This work but there are many others solutions (did you find one ?)
7. Install and get a rest.
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