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Today on the blog: We're creating a new vertical space in the gallery!
While we desperately miss being open to the public on a daily basis, being closed does come with some small perks. Mainly, we can disassemble the gallery displays to do a messy project and not have much concern about the rooms being in a state of disarray and no worry about a hard deadline for setting things back up.
We've been building a new gallery half wall (dividing wall) to display framed works. This project has been on our wish list/to-do list for years.
It's nice to see it finally coming together.
During this last week, Tom has been dismantling the small dividing wall (the area you see that's the red cloth and horizontal windows panes with paper covering the glass) and he's been constructing a new small half wall. It's between the studio where the slabrollers are and the gallery space.
Basically a backsplash/dust divider between the two areas where dust tends flutters around like it's its job.
In my opinion, no project should be documented without a proper "here's our plan for the measurements" photo and a photo of the fancy outside workshop and sawing zone. Hey, it cuts down on the dust inside!
It's always so wild looking at spaces when they are in the middle of a transformation. It's been probably 25 years since we hung up those windows and put the long wooden table there. Seeing the exposed backs of the slabrollers is such a trip.
Looking at the space mid-build, it makes me think about when I was a kid before we even had first moved into the brewery or set up the studio. I remember running around and jumping from the wooden floor up onto the concrete where the studio sits now. The space was so... open. I sort of forgot all about what that openness felt like.
Seeing the open cleared off wooden floor also reminds me of the small window of time between when we moved into the brewery and when we opened the gallery. We used to have a ping pong table set up in the middle of that room. I used to spend hours there honing my backhand and basking in the glory of beating all of Parrish's (my big bro) high school friends. They were all seven years older than me and they never saw my finely tuned game coming. I loved every second of it.
(Side note: That enjoyed has since morphed into kicking butt and taking names with all the boys at the bar.. back when we could still go out to bars before covid that is. They never see it coming either!)
I digress.. but anyway!
Tom on the floor laying out the lumber, constructing the frame, and getting ready to prop it up in its place.
Notice, in the photo on the above left, that large butcher block is staying in place. It weighs about as much as a mid-sized whale. We're going to have to nudge it a few inches before the end of this project but we've not quite gotten around to that yet. For now, it's the world's sturdiest bag of screws holder.
This new wall will be a flatter and definitely sturdier than our old set up. It'll be a much better place for us to hammer nails into for displaying framed works and wall hangings.
Much better than nailing into those glass panes, aye? Yeah, we think so too.
We're also planning on putting an old piece of barn wood on the top so we can display things up there too. Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!
We'll be keeping updates posted here on the process as we add the finishing touches, it's definitely still a work in progress. Should be ongoing for the next week or two.. or shorter? or longer? who knows!
Until next time.
~Claire
