What You Get |
| The finished artwork consists of a black shadow cut from black rag-stock pastel paper mounted on an acid-free rag-stock board using library paste. This results in an archival piece that, barring accidents, will last for many generations. When cutting silhouettes in public, I tell customers that I own a page of the Nurnberg Chronicle which was printed in 1493 on rag-stock paper similar to the paper my silhouettes are made from. The page is almost as white and flexible as the year it was printed. Many modern books as well as all comic books are printed on wood pulp. I tell my audience that when they have seen paperback books thirty years old turn brown and brittle, it's because the wood pulp paper they were printed on contains tannic acid, which destroys itself over time, unless the acidity is neutralized. |
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