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Gilded Frame, c.1865 (image courtesy of Fine Art Society Frames & Conservation (formerly Bourne Frames), Edinburgh. http://www.fasedinburgh.com)
Gilded, pine and composite picture frame made by Hugh Paton, Edinburgh, c.1865. The frame is decorated with a low-relief pattern of ivy leaves and stems with a prominent, sinuous leaf-and-berry and rope corner detail. The inner and outer edges of the frame are decorated respectively with a running leaf pattern and ornamental beading. The maker’s label reads ‘HUGH PATON, Printers, Printseller and Picture Dealer, ARTISTS COLOURMEN, 9 PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH. (Private Collection)

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• THOUGHTS

Thinking Isn’t Independent. It’s Built Over Time. What Feels Personal Is Often Pre-Formed, Influenced By Systems And Experiences That Existed Before Us.
- Most Of What We Call Our Own Thinking Is Shaped Long Before We’re Even Aware Of It.

THOUGHTS
Thinking Isn’t Independent. It’s Built Over Time. What Feels Personal Is Often Pre-Formed, Influenced By Systems And Experiences That Existed Before Us.
- Most Of What We Call Our Own Thinking Is Shaped Long
Before We’re Even Aware Of It.

Get • QUIET ASSEMBLIES

Structures Of Belonging

- Where Identity Forms Through Arrangement, Absence, And The Quiet Authority Of Systems.

This Body Of Work Moves As An Open Field - Unsettled, Searching, Becoming. What Once Felt Personal Dissolves Into Something Wider, Revealing How Memory, Environment, And Inherited Structures Shape The Way We See And Stand.

The Carved Silhouettes In Kiaat Extend This Language. In Collaboration With FRAME.ZA - The Frames Do Not Hold The Work, They Speak With It. Structure And Image Move As One.

This Marks A Closing, and At The Same Time, A Return. A Shift Back Into Self - Clearer, Sharper, More Grounded & More Greater. The Work Doesn’t End Here… It Reopens

Crystal art so beautiful and effortlessly completed by my client ✨
Finished with a simple, elegant mount and frame. Timeless elegance!