Technique

Crimson lacquer outside, comic-textured liner inside. When the frame argues with the artwork on first read, then agrees with it on close inspection.

Four prints, framed identically, hung as a quartet. The choreography of identical framing across a series, where any deviation reads instantly.

Color-matching a frame is not about repeating a hue from the artwork. It is about finding the color the print is already implying without showing.

Two frames for one artist: a deep gold for the still life, a matte orange for the abstract. Why we do not always match across an artist's wall.

Hand-stitched cotton, dyed to the saturation of paint. We built a frame to match: a hand-painted liner inside ornate gilded moulding, formal enough to insist this is portraiture, not decoration.