Digital BW, The Print

One of my clients is a huge foundry that makes cast iron industrial
products for the plumbing market. They have an artist residency
program that essentially lets artists apply for grants to use the
foundry for fine art pieces. They get nationally 
known artists from all over the world who are grateful to have a huge
foundry at their disposal. I was photographing a piece of artwork that
was of course a cast piece of some kind of 
iron and it was very colorful. I asked the artist if she used some
sort of glaze like a potter may use. Her response was "it's rustoleum
spray paint". It was a beautiful piece of 
artwork. She was not concerned about what reactions the paint may
have with the
iron. It will undoubtably not have the same permanence ar a fired
glaze made of titanium or some other 
metal oxide, but the art looks good and the artist was unemcumbered
by all this archival stuff. Sometimes we just have to take a chance
and go for it.