Must go visit Access Artist Run Centre and take some measurements. There’s another couple of the galleries that I should look at in person as well, since one of them uses a mystifying measurement system on their layout… couldn’t be centimeters, not inches, could be millimeters, but that still seems big in at least one of the dimensions.

Also, need slide film. Should spend a couple bucks on lumber for stretcher frames too if I actually plan on DOING these solo shows I’m proposing. One of the pieces I’ve come up with is the largest I’ve thought of doing since college. This one’s a tiny-by-comparison set of five frames measuring 3 feet by 5 feet at this point. I could go as big as 4 by 6 on the wall I’m proposing this one for, and might still if I can find a nice, even 10 foot length of cheap 2×2 lumber that stays relatively straight.

I need to take some slides of the newer pieces, and may be blessed with some good sun for it today. Well, there’s sun now – we’ll see how long that lasts, or I’ll try to do what I can in the studio’s front gallery… plenty of lighting in there, and with some opaque screens (rice paper or mylar if it doesn’t melt on the halogens), I should be able to get some amount of even lighting happening. Develop and pick slides tomorrow, and drop off the earliest of the proposals to Access (due January 12th) tomorrow. I think I know what I want on all the walls there, and have a great piece for right inside the window. Now I just need to get the damn slides.

The next couple gallerie in the list of things to be done accept digital submissions or photos. Bonus being that the one is a photographic gallery, and I’d kind of need to get slides made of negs – not cheap. So, burn a CD and go from there. Think I’ll pitch the cross-processed images that I’ve been working on, possibly using the stop sign or electrical hazard images for the main piece… visions of having those blown up all big and pixelated to some ungodly size like 6′ high. From 35mm. Could be fun. Might have to actually inkjet that one in small pieces. Could be neat to have a somewhat exploded view of a piece, with white-space between the bits.

The college painting piece was effectively a mural. The painting studio had a ceiling that was easily 25 feet high, so I did what I could to fill that space. I bought the cheapest canvas I could (7 oz crap that I still buy for the biggies) and hung about 30 feet (I bought too much) of 80″ wide canvas from the roof. It was scary, since most of the work was done perched on a big rickety ladder that wasn’t meant to handle that kinda work… I was working mostly with thin washes on unprimed canvas (could you imagine the amount of gesso?), so of course there was a faint image when I ripped (because it was stuck) the canvas off the wall eventually. It was a great piece, and very fun to do, but it wasn’t destined to be hung or shown – it was eventually recycled into other pieces that have since been lost to the ages