Ice Cream Break

We haven’t finished mounting all the prints yet but we’re close. We needed to install one of the shows today so we had to put backing frames on all 45 of them. This seemed like it would take forever but someone precut the pieces yesterday and we came up with a pretty good system for building the frames so we got them together in a couple hours.

After that, we needed to move them to the gallery space. Nobody at DAA seems to have a vehicle larger than a motorbike so we ended up hiring a songthaew and loading all the prints into it. 

We made it to the gallery and unloaded the prints but there was no set order for them to go in so we had to decide it ourselves. It took us an hour to lay out all the prints in an order that we all agreed on (and even then there were some minor disagreements). Then we took an ice cream break. Yum.

After our break, we returned to the gallery to put up the photos. The prints are all pretty light so we used sticky-tac (adhesive putty) to put them up. It took three people to put up a photo: One to position it on the wall and two to look at it and say if it was aligned properly. It was a confusing mess of “Move it down. No, that’s too much. Now up on the right. No, your other right,” but we eventually got all 45 prints up.

There’s a screening tonight but I’m tired so I decided to skip in favor of a nap. I’m awake now and may leave shortly to go the after-party taking place in the same location the Couchsurfing meetup was at.