It all began with a big bare wall. This (including Abby the cat) is what you see when you walk in our front door. The wall is really huge -- two stories high, stairs going down.
What to put on it?
So I made 150 large "shipping tags," creating a painting or a collage on both sides of each tag -- 300 images in all.
I wanted the tags to zoom across the wall as well as cascade down. But what order do I put them in? Which side is "up?" It's a good thing we have a king-sized bed, which is where we figured out how we wanted them all to appear on the wall.
We then strung together the tags and bundled each string so we'd know which order they should go on the bamboo pole.
Chris is much better at spatial concepts than I, so he is the one who figured out how to string the tags together and then how to suspend them from the pole. As you can see (in the fourth photo), Abby was a big help offering advice.
The last two photos show you the final result. The hanging is six feet wide by 9 feet high. I think it looks terrific. It's big, it's bold, it has a presence when you walk in the door, it's colorful, and it moves in the slightest breeze, so sometimes I see the fronts, sometimes the backs of the tags.
And it's unique. I've not seen anything like it. I love it. And to love your art? Isn't that just the best?
©Carol Leigh
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