Bob is looking a little annoyed at me running around shooting photos of everything with my new little Lumix digital camera. Packing and un-packing for art shows is a lot of work, even with all the convenient storage we’ve built into our residence/studio it is a challenge to complete the task with minimum damage. We have two large closets in the gallery room to store the shrink wrap inventory on the first floor adjacent to the garage making this job much easier than our last home where storage was in the basement.
The frame shop and framed inventory is stored on the main floor in a separate room attached to the garage, making loading and un-loading the cargo trailer very easy and quite enjoyable during the dark, cold winter months. Recently, in a desperate attempt to become organized, I designed storage bags from bubble wrap for the framed prints and color coded the bags by size using colored duct tape. The large bags are red and go into the big bin stored in the trailer, the yellow bags take medium/large prints and go into the large tub with yellow handles and big wheels. This tub is easy to roll in and out of any venue in all weather conditions. The purple bags go into the tub with purple latches and take medium sized framed work, and the green bags are for small works and fit the green tub. Of course, none of this matters to Bob who uses whatever bag is handy and stuffs them helter skelter wherever they fit. I always smile when I unpack to see my attempt at organization so completely skewed, each tub a rainbow of colored bags. Nevertheless, the frames are protected from damage, some of my ideas are working.
Gail Niebrugge, Artist
Hey, I remember that look from Bob!
Intimidating right? But he is such a teddy bear, really. Gail