Sunday May 24 – Artomatic Installation

Robin and I completely installed my display for Artomatic yesterday  – I had previously painted the wall, but we needed to hang the art, put my sign up, install and properly wire the lighting, and set up a table with postcards and a comment book.  We were there more than a few hours, but i forgot to check the time!  This was the last weekend before opening and people discussing last year’s event made it sound like it would get pretty crazy with a long queue for the freight elevator, but it wasn’t bad at all.  I guess the real bad day will be for people who are waiting to install until tomorrow (the last day).

Here is Robin contemplating picture alignment:

Here’s me re-considering picture alignment:

Here’s the final result:

The plywood walls are set up in sort of a shallow zigzag configuration – you can see an interesting painting by Michael Torra to the right.  In the left background, another artist paints his wall.  Because some of my art is dark and behind glass, it’s hard to see it at certain angles, but it shows up okay if you’re there in person. It was a lot of work but satisfying.  I’ll be back there again next week for my first volunteer shift.