FYI ~ discursive promiscuity redux

Center gallery wall • click to embiggenLast Saturday afternoon while my friend from NYC and I were hanging out in the gallery, he mentioned that it must have been time consuming and challenging to have hanged - placement, position, arrangement, juxtaposition, etc. - the pictures on the wall. In fact, that was not the case.

Because we were hanging prints right up to show time, and despite my assistant's pleas, I was just hanging the prints in no particular order with the idea that once they were on the wall, I could take the time to arrange them. Unfortunately, once the print were all on the wall, the gallery goers started pouring in. Consequently the center wall prints never got "arranged"(the prints on the side walls did get arranged).

That said, when it was all said and done, I thought that the "random" arrangement worked rather well, at least nobody complained or, other than my friend, even mentioned the arrangement. It wasn't until my friend mentioned it, that I had a flashback to my idea of discursive promiscuity - an idea that I addressed in a blog entry 2 years ago.

Over time, that idea sort of went by the wayside. After spending some time with the center gallery wall, I think that I will have to rethink the idea. I liked it before. I like it even better now.