This week's about setting up. A lot of time's been spent filling, sanding and painting (and repainting) walls to try and get the room looking as perfect as is possible for us to achieve. Now that background work's well on the way, it's been time to start installing my work.
Time and effort has been taken to ensure the boxes are exactly the same distance apart (1 foot) and they are all exactly the same height (70 inches). There was some debate after the first two boxes were half installed as to whether 70 inches was quite tall enough, but the centre of the image does fall at the average eye line and taking them much higher would begin to alienate shorter viewers. My work is also on a wall clearly visible upon entering our exhibition space, so it was important to take a distanced view into consideration and any higher than this I feel the work would feel too high at a distance glance.
There are currently a few gaps between the boxes and the wall. This is mainly due to the nature of the walls; they are not 100% straight and although I've filled, sanded and painted them to the best of my ability, the wall has slightly different levels where the different parts of chip board join. This has resulted in notable gaps in certain places so I am going to fill the boxes all the wall around to make them as much of a part of the wall as possible and eliminate these gaps.
Above is also an example of how the boxes have been slightly marked since all my paint work. This isn't an issue as I will simply repaint, as I will have to once filling the gaps anyway.
