art sadness
Aug. 26th, 2005 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdTime for art whining!
The lighting on my sculptures in the Kenmore art show is very poor. This makes me sad. One piece, All Fall Down, is literally half in shadow - there's a diagonal shadow across the piece, so that the lower-left half is underlit, and the upper-right half is not lit at all. It's also in an alcove leading to an unlit hallway. And this piece got an honourable mention from the judges, so it's not like they just didn't like it.
Of the other two, one, Remembering Someone Else's Grandmother, is almost adequately lit, but plays second fiddle in its location to the room's thermostat and is hung next to an open-wall counter between the exhibition room and an unlit kitchen. The third, Death in Hyperspace, is leaning against the wall on a ledge in a dim corner, next to a large utility box that projects out from the wall and hides it from you as you come around the corner. I was looking for it - looking for my own piece of art - and walked right by it.
My pieces are about light. Dark is the opposite of light, so this is not good. I am sad.
I'm going to take in some lights tomorrow and see if I can improve the situation at least a bit. I mean, for the love of god, at least I can get All Fall Down out of the dark. And they said I could, so that's handy.
I'm kind of worried about Death in Hyperspace, too. I'm not convinced they secured it against the wall. I think it might just be leaning there. Gosh, I hope it doesn't fall over or anything.
Anyway. Sadness.
On the other hand, I found out today that I am in fact getting more money for turning these couple of articles I've talked about from 750 words each to 1500 words each, and we need the money really badly, so that's good.
Political post to follow. La.
The lighting on my sculptures in the Kenmore art show is very poor. This makes me sad. One piece, All Fall Down, is literally half in shadow - there's a diagonal shadow across the piece, so that the lower-left half is underlit, and the upper-right half is not lit at all. It's also in an alcove leading to an unlit hallway. And this piece got an honourable mention from the judges, so it's not like they just didn't like it.
Of the other two, one, Remembering Someone Else's Grandmother, is almost adequately lit, but plays second fiddle in its location to the room's thermostat and is hung next to an open-wall counter between the exhibition room and an unlit kitchen. The third, Death in Hyperspace, is leaning against the wall on a ledge in a dim corner, next to a large utility box that projects out from the wall and hides it from you as you come around the corner. I was looking for it - looking for my own piece of art - and walked right by it.
My pieces are about light. Dark is the opposite of light, so this is not good. I am sad.
I'm going to take in some lights tomorrow and see if I can improve the situation at least a bit. I mean, for the love of god, at least I can get All Fall Down out of the dark. And they said I could, so that's handy.
I'm kind of worried about Death in Hyperspace, too. I'm not convinced they secured it against the wall. I think it might just be leaning there. Gosh, I hope it doesn't fall over or anything.
Anyway. Sadness.
On the other hand, I found out today that I am in fact getting more money for turning these couple of articles I've talked about from 750 words each to 1500 words each, and we need the money really badly, so that's good.
Political post to follow. La.
