Where to hang each painting — so many decisions!
The show is up and ready to be seen. I spent some time at the gallery last night, watching the experts decide where each painting should go, and learning a little from them about how to make those decisions. That is a skill that is beyond me at this time. The hanging crew, meanwhile, was busy milling around in the background, taking out the hangers and nails left in the wall from the last show, spackling the holes smooth again, and taping up the string that marks the viewing line, which becomes the mid-point of each painting. Some day I will learn how to be a useful part of that job, but for now, I left before they got underway with the hanging, so I wouldn’t be in the way. I haven’t personally been there yet to see the results of the hanging crew’s hard labor, but I hear from Marian that it looks great.
