As all artists know, completing your art work is not where the work ends. One then needs to be able to photograph it for archival purposes, or perhaps to make cards or prints from your work. The above link provides some simple suggestions.
Curious Art's current exhibition is actually called "up against the wall" for a number of reasons. We were all zonked from a heavy schedule of our volunteer based work at the gallery plus commitments in our personal lives. Coming up with a name for the last exhibition, we were literally "up against the wall" and we decided to have artworks casually leaning against walls and easels on plinths.
On another level, "up against the wall" relates to the individual struggles of artists dating back when artists first practised their tradecraft in return for money, goods or services. The modern day situation really has not changed that much. Many are called; few are chosen. Nevertheless we create for the pleasure it creates for us and hopefully, others. And if this means that it puts us up against the wall from time to time, so be it!
If any artist ever lived his life 'up against the wall,' it was Vincent. For a man who sold less than $100 in his own lifetime, his art work now attracts hundreds of millions of dollars. Are we not glad that he did not collapse and give in, but leant against the "wall" and carried on? What a gift we have from him.
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