How should I frame this watercolor?

Post date: 2020-11-28 11:12:18

A friend who is an artist -- an actual, known, professional artist -- gifted me a watercolor. It's been pulled out of a spiral-bound sketchbook, so one side of the paper has the row of punched holes with the ripped edge. Adjacent to that is the line where the paper has been lightly scored so it could have been ripped out more neatly. Now I'm going to have the watercolor framed. Should I include the ripped edge?

Is that...a thing? I know I can do whatever I want, but I'm wondering about the aesthetic and artistic choices here. Does it make a difference that she's a personal friend who gave this to me? Does it make a difference that she's a known artist? Should I cut neatly along that scored line and get rid of the edge?

Would love to know what artistic people and artists think about this.

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