Work in progress – detail
Not long to go now until Drift…would. opens.
Not long to go until I deliver my precious cargo to the capable hands of the gallery and start chewing my fingernails. 4 days in fact.
The last week has been spent (combined with juggling kids home on holidays) in painting the edges, touching up paintings, counting, recounting, measuring and arranging and swinging wildly between feelings of satisfaction at producing a large and interesting body of work, and feeling freaked out that there may not be – despite months and months of solid work, enough to go around. And there will be no way of knowing, until it is hanging how it will look.
It’s a bit scary all this.
Tomorrow I’ll be banging in screws, threading wires and labelling. Glamorous stuff. Cards have been ordered (I hope they are ready on time). I need a haircut, which probably wont happen, and I am, bizarrely considering the extended adrenalin rush I have been on, missing being so busy already.
I’m a teeny bit flat, and nervous and edgy. Isn’t that strange.
Geez this is surely going to be an interesting show Michelle! It’s going to look deeply surreal I think, paintings with blazing glorious colour mixed with others of deep shadowy tones. Hope everything runs smoothly!
nearly there now! I understand the mixed emotions, but you should be pleased with all you’ve achieved. hope the hang goes well for you. pxxxx
Michelle from my experience you always have more than you need. A light hang becomes a full hang, paintings that in your imagintation only take up half the space miraculously fill the entire space. You will have plenty of paintings and lots of interesting interplay between them too.
You have done so well to complete all your paintings! I’m very excited for you and wish I could come to your show. Best of luck with it all! Make sure you take heaps of photo’s, I really want to see them all hanging together, they are going to look awesome!