Limited editions · Est. 2019
The Story
Leaves the Frame.
Handcrafted artworks where the figures sit on the moulding, step through broken corners, and pull a real rope from one frame to the next.
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Why Kinetic Frames
The emptiness is the artwork.
Handcrafted with precision
Every figure is painted under magnification and set by hand. Nothing is printed, nothing is repeated.
The frame is part of the story
Corners are cut away, edges are sat on, ropes run from one frame to the next across your wall.
Designed to spark imagination
Seventy percent of each frame is left empty on purpose. You finish the story.
Real objects, real materials
Jute rope, cut wood posts, tumbled glass and hand-carved mouldings — set into the work, not printed on it.
Rooted in everyday life
Children at play, a paper boat, a rope pulled tight. Small moments drawn in a miniature hand.
Released in small editions
Each work is numbered and retired. When an edition closes, it does not return.
The Concept
Beyond the frame.
A frame is supposed to be where the artwork stops. In our pieces it is where the artwork begins to move — a figure climbs onto the moulding, a corner is cut away so someone can sit in it, a jute rope runs out of one frame and into another across the wall. The wall stops being a background and becomes part of the story.
Frames that talk to each other
A real rope crosses the wall between two frames — around a corner, or three metres apart. You set the tension.
Broken corners
The moulding is cut away by hand and rebuilt, so a figure can sit in the space where the frame used to be.
Objects, not prints
Cut wood posts, tumbled glass and jute are set into the surface. Every arrangement is made once.
Our Story
A frozen moment from a larger story.
Kinetic Frames began in a small studio with a magnifying lamp, a pair of tweezers and one stubborn question: what happens if the figure refuses to stay inside the frame?
Everything changes. A rope leaves the canvas and crosses the wall. A girl sits on the moulding with her feet hanging into your room. The viewer leans in, and for a moment the room goes still.
We build every piece by hand, one at a time, in editions small enough to remember.
Collectors
“Everyone who walks into the room stops talking for a second. That has never happened with anything else I own.”
Amara L. · Copenhagen
“It is the emptiness I keep looking at. The little figure just tells you where to begin.”
Julien R. · Paris
“The framing is better than the gallery pieces I have bought at ten times the price.”
Sana M. · Toronto