How It's Made

Three ways to hold the light.

Everything is made to order by real craftsmen here in the United States. Each timeless piece arrives ready to hang that very afternoon.

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The same photograph, two ways.

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This is a simulation, not a photograph of the print. Acrylic is known for the deepest blacks and the best color rendition. Every step down changes the overall look of the image. Everything I create is meant to be shown on an acrylic medium. Metal is going to be the closest material in terms of reproduction, whereas canvas will always mute the overall colors. The size of the step is exaggerated on purpose so you can see which way each finish moves. The difference in a room is real but gentler than this, and no screen can show you an anti-reflective surface. If the choice comes down to two, write to me, and I’m happy to help.

The Craft

Printed properly, or not at all.

The acrylic line is the highest possible quality print achievable. Every one is made by hand, face-mounted under Tru Life anti-reflective acrylic, by the people who originated this print medium in the first place. It is the highest quality you can get today. The difference is astounding, and you can see it from across a room. Each photograph I take desires to be shown in this medium.

Which should I choose?

  • A bright room, or sun on the wallCanvas, matte and glareless, or the anti-reflective acrylic.
  • A darker room, or evening lightMetal or acrylic. This is where they show what they are for.
  • The best this photograph can beAcrylic, the flagship. The deepest blacks, and almost no surface at all.

Canvas Gallery Wrap

Giclée on archival canvas, stretched by hand over 1.5″ bars. Matte, warm, and glareless from every angle in the room. It does not announce itself; it settles in, the way a good guest does.

Best in bright rooms

Mid-Gloss MetalPrint

Dye driven directly into aluminum, so the picture lives inside the metal rather than resting on it. Luminous, waterproof, and very nearly impossible to scratch. Light does not land on it. Light comes out of it.

Holds shadow detail

1/4″ Face-Mounted Acrylic

Face-mounted beneath 100% Tru Life anti-reflective acrylic on 1.3″ Italian ROMA float frames. The deepest blacks money can currently buy, and so little reflection that people walk up and touch it to work out where the surface is.

The flagship

What is actually in the crate.

  • Archival from face to backerMade to last decades on a wall without drifting anywhere you would notice.
  • 100% Tru Life anti-reflective acrylicStill reads cleanly on the wall directly opposite a window, which is where most people want to hang it and are usually told they cannot.
  • 1.3″ Italian ROMA float framesThe piece stands off the wall and throws a shadow of its own, so it sits in the room rather than on it.
  • A lifetime warranty on acrylicEvery acrylic piece is made with a full acrylic backer, and carries a lifetime warranty.
  • Ready to hang on a French cleatA hidden rail on the back of the float frame. One level line on the wall and it is up.
  • Diamond-milled edgesSatin-finished, so the edge of the acrylic is as clean as its face.
  • Made to order in the United StatesNothing warehoused, so nothing arrives having waited two years for you.
  • 20 × 30″ up to 40 × 120″Ten feet across at the top of the acrylic range. Wide enough to change what a room is about.

Keep it out of direct sun. That is the whole of it. The one thing that shortens all three, and the only rule worth carrying in your head. Acrylic and metal want a dry microfiber cloth and never a solvent. Canvas wants dusting, occasionally, and nothing else for the rest of its life.

Contact

Tell me about the wall.

A piece you keep coming back to. A size you cannot settle. A commission. A room that has defeated you twice already. These reach me, and I am the one who answers them.

This lands in Justin@theartoftravels.net, and is usually answered inside two working days.

Currently traveling

I am frequently somewhere with no signal at all. If a reply takes a few days, that is nearly always the reason, not that your letter went unread.

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