Lighting

After everything has being done, the construction and installation of lighting was being done. The lights are placed just on the stands, just above the artworks. The lighting used is very subtlle, and when the lights are off looks very good, and can guide people in the right direction. After the lighting is being done, what we have left is the floor, which is already organised and done. We are going to place our artworks on the spaces provided and enjoy the exhibition and the great opportunity which we were given by this institute! I hope everyone else will enjoy as much as we. :)

Rooms almost ready

The rooms are almost finished. When it comes to the stands, walls, carpeting in the other room is done and finalised. When we have left is to do a flooring in the first room, lighting in both rooms and to place the artwork in the places provided. Posters are being sent all together for printing so they can be ready and done all in the same time.

More progress

The wall with the screen is being covered with pallets so that we can actually use the screen. What is intention with that screen is to showcase the logo and the name of the exhibition which I think is a really good idea. The rooms are almost done, what we did was doing some final touches, cleaning the floors again to make sure there is not any paint on, as well as the sides of the wall.

Painting the wood for flooring

After all the shelving and tables were done in both of the rooms provided, the idea about the grey flooring was being brought up. Since we had the wood cut  for the floor, what we did was painted the pieces in the color provided and mixed by lecturer Mr. Mamo. I really liked this idea, and I enjoyed painting the wood pieces, but unfortunately this idea was being removed, after almost all the pieces were being done. I still wished we did use them, the colour and the texture of the wood came really good, and it would look good in the first room as well.

Almost there

For the second room of the exhibition the similar concept was being adapted. The same pallet stands were hang on the walls, and there were placed two tables in each section of the room. One of the tables will be for printed work and another table for the work which will be shown on the screens. Both of the tables are made out of wood but in a different ways. The first one is rectangular, "hanging" from the ceiling and the other one (the one for the screens) is circle shaped one with very unique base. I love the idea of both tables, and I think them came looking really good, and they serve the purpose very well as well.

Finalising

 Here is the process of creating pallet shelves on the walls. What we did was breaking apart the actual constructed pallets, measuring the lenght of the walls and width of the windows and than putting together future stands. After that being done we sand them, first we sand them manually and than Beverly brought a sanding machine and sand most of the pallets.

Here are some pictures of finished pallet stands. I find this concept for the room looking very good and i think that very good job is done in the short amount of time. Because of the concept changing we had some difficulties when starting the rooms, but after the pallet concept has been brought up, the rooms were done in a short amount of time.

Moving forward in right direction

After some more brainstorming, couple of times ideas and concepts were changed. The final idea that we stuck with was the idea of pallets. So, in addition to that, we tried to find as much pallets possible. Couple of student called and brought some pallets, and than we found a place with a lot of pallets, with help of the truck managed to bring them to school.

After the painting was done in both of the rooms, what we did is clean up the floors, which were covered with paint. We tried to clean the paint with multiple techniques, but at the end we cleaned it properly.

As a fundraising plan, a Father's day cards sale was brought up and turned out to be a great success. A lot of student made a excellent designs for cards which brought up attention and made them sell.

The planing and construction of pallets covering the window, which are going to be used as a stands for our work.