playinprogress's soup

So after a night of no sleep most of the drawings are framed now, and some already hanging. I’m wondering how to hang the rest – all the same size aluminum frames (ca. 25 x 21 cm), but how to arrange? I want to group them according to miniseries – here you can see all the drawings of tradescantia purpurea in color, and some dead tulips in color. Another group is going to be ink drawings, another one simple pencil drawings, a small group (3 x) silver points. The views of Berlin and public transport drawings, including this one, will hang in the back room (smoking area), the main room being completely dedicated to plant drawings.

First I though I may even have too many drawings—now I have a healthy respect for the size of the rooms… Which brings me back to my question. The way I see it I have two main tendencies I can follow: either I try to spread everything out evenly, so no bit of wall looks empty, but with the risk of visual boredom (I’m not much of a fan of very regular arrangements), or I nest them together, risking the ‘obviously blank wall’.

Of course both these tendencies can be done in a regular or a irregular manner: when the drawings are evenly spaced they don’t have to line up, and when they are clustered together they can be arranged in a grid, maybe forming a bigger ‘meta image’ rectangle.

Ah, I wish I could spend a couple of days just rearranging and testing stuff, and not having to hammer the nails in the wall myself;-)

Oh, and don’t worry about my lack of sleep. I’m probably going to go to bed soon, and sleep A LOT before I get up again tomorrow. Framing 30 + drawings and preparing the bigger ones was just too boring to do while fully awake. Perfect for that strange in between of late night and early morning, though. Now that some are already hanging I’m much more relaxed, too.

P.S. Missed the exhibition details? All the info is here.

Some framed public transport drawings