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Setting up the NEON Exhibit

10/6/2016

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Today Austin, Michael, Gwen, and I set up the exhibit we laid out the day before. It began by bringing the laid out pieces to the building our gallery was at. We were given 6 walls by the Spaceworks Tacoma people, which turned out to perfectly fit all the work we brought.  It was only when I got there I realized we had to decide how and where to put our work on the blank walls; previously we had just laid them into groups on the floor.
 
            The pieces were split between printed posters and hand drawn sketches made by the old LiftPort artist Nyien. We started off hanging the large posters and objects with frames. Originally the plan was to use pushpins and we were being very exact and ensuring everything was hung straight. Then we moved on to the sketches, again being very careful to keep them straight and use pushpins. But after we had laid out how it would look, the walls with hand drawn sketches seemed wanting for something. So Michael suggested we tape up the sketches with black electrical tape, and put them up haphazardly at all kinds of angles and heights.  The tape was also used to frame posters and captions. When we finished, it looked like a wall from an inventor’s workshop. Gwen said that earlier the sketches were trying to be something they weren’t, which was probably the best way to put it.
 
The outer wall had a huge collage of all kinds of space related stickers, quotes, graphics, event ads, and documents. Then there were two inside walls for posters and some sketches that showed the progression of work (and some awesome doodles courtesy of Nyien), as well as two inside walls for all of the concept drawings. The final wall was in the very back, a large brown brainstorming sheet from years ago that to me looked the most like modern art. Once the art was on the walls, we put a table with all kinds of robots, microchips, motors, and other engineering paraphernalia in the middle of the room. Perhaps the coolest part was a tiny fraction of a string of Dyneema suspending a 20 lb. anvil in the air. All in all it ended up being a pretty cool looking gallery, I’m sorely upset at myself for not taking any pictures of it. 

- Darius Tamboli 
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