Last week, the building I rent a studio in had an open doors
weekend. Needless to say my studiomate
and I have jumped on the occasion, and transformed the space to make it
more gallery like. First, we patched all the holes in the walls, and painted it a neutral matte grey for
picture taking. We then proceeded to
clean up the studio, and set up our show.
Everything was quite nice, at that point. We still had to make a few
minor ajustments, but we were ready. And I came home with a great sense of
accomplishment.
However, I don’t want to give you some motivational talk in
this post. I’d rather just leave you some food for thought.
I can never stress enough how much work putting up a show is.
We had 2 very important helpers: my studiomate’s friend played photographer for
our portfolio pictures, and J. came over to help us plan our space for the
show. I think our show was only
better because of these two men and their generosity.
Our photographer kindly came to take pictures with his
latest model Nikon, a beautiful camera. He offered to fix our photos for us in
Photoshop. We are paying him, but much less than it would have cost to rent the
equipement to do it ourselves. The whole process took one hour and a half. We
had fun, he had fun, and we all went for a snack afterwards. His help was very
much appreciated.
J. also had great ideas for hanging the art. It was great to
have an outside view of our space. I realize we weren’t thinking about how
people would interact with the space before he showed up and insisted on
creating angles to break up the linear walls.
These episodes made me remember how greatly personal
projects depend on the help we can get from other people. Art is a huge
project, and because you can’t be good at everything, well, friends are a great
alternative!
Thank you for your kind help, J and J !
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