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RE: [Digital BW] Re: Print Head Damage?

2003-01-23 by Tim Atherton

> Something I feel I should point out about your experimenting:
> Interestng as it may be, what you're producing on all those weird
> non-archival acid impregnated (shopping bags?) media is TEMPORARY
> ART. Lovely, wild, exciting, (I'd love to see some) but with the
> proverbial 'lifespan of a sperm-cell' if you're using OEM dye inks,
> and only a bit less so if you're using pigments. Something to think
> about when you're choosing media...
>

 Mind you, a lot of that so called "TEMPORARY ART" produced by artists using
paintbrushes loaded with all sorts of oddball paints on similar media hang
on gallery and museum walls and sell for very good prices....

Don't get hung up on the 'archival" neurosis of this list. It's not the only
part of the equation.

tim

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