and we are UP.
Tuesday we finally got into our window and began to set up the installation. We realised we wouldn't be able to string fishing line across to hand the pictures from as it would droop under the weight. Thankfully, Paul at Fred Aldous cut us some 2x1 pieces of wood which we could suspend from which wedge between the walls, resting on the picture rails.
Whilst mocking up we found it really hard to suspend each picture individually so we decided we would string the fishing line between the wall and the floor, tightly, and then attach the photos to those. This has worked pretty well even though it was a little tricky to get them to look straight and level. Working in this way has given us a lot more control about which pictures go where and the overall look of the window as we have been able to hold up and judge exactly where something should go and verify it before it was fixed.
There was some debate about whether we should draw frames on the inside or outside of the glass. Personally I wanted them to be drawn on the inside as there was then no chance of them being smudged or ruined or washed off. There was some discussion that they should be done from the outside for ease but for the sake of a little extra time marking up from the outside, I felt it would look miles better and you’ll get some depth from the glass.
After a session of doing frames, we returned the following day to discover the fishing line had stretched a little and they were mostly skewed and off balance with the photos. This meant we had to redo the majority which was a great shame.
The pictures themselves look great all hung up and the frames, all being different are really quirky. I think hanging them at different levels has made all the difference, really lending itself to the perspective outlining which we have done through the frames. The only negative is the back of the pictures as the tape used to hang them makes the back of the mount-board look a little messy which I would prefer to have covered or at least looking a little more uniform. A few ideas to cover it was to use a sheet or a apiece of paper with F A C E S printed onto it; we were a little concerned about costs here though having already spent so much. The only other suggestion was to hang our T-Shirts from the event up all togetheras they are already double sided.
