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How I use mats, float mounts, and frames to shape the story of a piece
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How I use mats, float mounts, and frames to shape the story of a piece

Learn how mats, float mounts, and frame choices can shape the story of your art. A personal guide to thoughtful, elevated framing at home.

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The 2026 World Cup kicks off this Friday in LA and the kits are already telling us a lot.

Football shirts are cultural objects forms of national identity, fashion strategy, artist collaboration, tourism campaign, retail drop, and soft power all fold
My latest artist interview is with Alex Maceda (@alexmacedastudio ), who I had the pleasure to finally meet in person last week in New York at her MFA thesis show. 

Alex’s paintings live in the space between body and landscape, desire and rest
Touch is a sensation, and sensation is information! (@for____scale @colbo.nyc @bankston_architectural)

Last week in NYC for art week and a touch of design week (ha!), was perfection. My camera roll is filled with many moments of sensation and inform
IT’S TIME!! First Monday in May means Met Gala!

This year’s dress code is “Fashion is Art,” which sounds simple until you realize how easy it is to turn that into a painting printed on a dress.

The more interesting question
Priyanka Rana’s (@priyankarana_artist) practice is formally modern, but carry rituals, memories, ecological grief, repair, and the spirit of nature that we know to be centuries old.

In our conversation, Rana talks about the moment wood stopped
What’s left when everything can be copied?
 
Blame AI, blame the algorithm, blame doomscrolling, and even blame the loneliness epidemic. Things everywhere continue to be flattened into sameness but what continues to hold my attention are the id
When we were growing up, Black History Month was the only thing February really held in a prominent way (apart from the joy of candy hearts on Valentine’s Day and the Super Bowl). With all the noise today, it’s easy to lose the thread, wh

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