Diptych and Triptych Design

Was thinking of a possible design for my Ambros in dip and triptychs, using hinges. The idea is to able to mount 11x14 inch and 14x14 inches plates in 2s and 3s this way. I would hand-make the frames.

Possibles?!

Ideas for Framing Ambros for Exhibition

Been thinking on framing for the possible 2008-09 AMBROTOS KANATA exhibition. 

How to proceed? Diptych’s? Ambrotype sizes? Types of frames? How many?

Here is a 14x14 inch ambrotype in a hand made pine frame. The black substrate behind the clear glass ambro is only a test 11x14 inch metal plate.

I currently thinking of going with 11x14, 14x14, 20x24 and 24x24 ambrotypes in large hand made wooden frames.

This diptych frame looks pretty good.

Possible AMBROTOS KANATA Exhibition on Vancouver Island

 

The gallery is the "Comox Valley Art Gallery",  Courtenay, Vancouver Island BC, Canada. It is a smaller gallery but quite nice, a lovely space.

Courtenay BC

 

The exhibition IF it happens, will allow the following:   

- I will allow for the work to be exhibited, possibly for the first time.  Letting me tell a         important story about Canada in glass. 

- The exhibition will allow more trips to Vancouver Island to make more and more ambrotypes. 

-It will push me to work harder and harder on the project. If I have a space, I want to fill with   beautiful and powerful work. The exhibition IF it happens would not be until 2028 or 2029.

The gallery exterior

 

Interior gallery space

Population Canada

 

Sunning and Filtering Silver Nitrate

I am sunning and filtering my silver nitrate solutions. I have somewhere between 13 and 14 litres of the stuff. 

Picked up a second daylight light source a week back. Got it delivered to the house for $30 CAD(2nd hand). I like my first daylight source for this type of sunning. Hopefully the second light will work as well.

Sunning this way has benefits There is no need to filter while sunning for bugs, no need to worry about about the valuable  silver being outside. I can simply place the glass lab bottles next to the lights in one of my darkrooms (house-trailer) and forget about it. I usually sun for 3 or 4 days. The glass bottles let me see my silver clearly, allowing me to judge its quality. The 3-4 days of sunning  allows for clearing of excess alcohol without needing to transfer the silver to a wider mouth glass container. 

I changed my filtering material from cotton to coffee filters. And moved from 3 funnels to 2. The idea is to speed up my filtering. This is especially important when I am in the field and have time limits on how long I can stay at a location. 

Sunning the silver with my 2 (1 new) daylight light lamps

Filtering silver through to funnels with coffee filters

Top coffee filter and filtration. The black is the residue sunned out of the silver nitrate solution.