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If you have a lot of art: paintings, drawings etc. HOW do you enjoy them?
For a long time I couldn't afford much art. So I always framed it right away and hung it up. But, the walls are a little crowded now. Considering a system where I rotate the art every half year? Seasonally? I would also have a designated closet spot for art that isn't hanging.
Anyone do this?
If you must know, yes it's almost all ants. But you knew that part.
@futurebird as someone whose wife is a working artist, thank you for your service. I am under the impression that collecting enthusiastically like this is vanishingly rare.
Boring advice: Investing in flat files for works on paper, renting climate controlled storage for paintings & sculpture.
Even better: lending your works out to arts orgs, showing your collection in exhibitions, and treating it like a cohesive entity with a website and with proper metadata.
@dphiffer @futurebird i'd be really curious to hear if you've got any pointers for website+metadata setups for this-- especially for making the collection easily queryable!
@futurebird Have you tried storing your paintings on every possible wall, in a stack in your office, behind the TV, in the storage room, four deep on a shelf, under the bed, and at your sister's house? Those are all the places my wife is keeping art (at least the places I know of).
I worry that storing framed art in a closet might make it grow dusty. Maybe I could put it in a bag?
Also remember today is "buy nothing" day but buying art directly from the artist doesn't count.
Putting everything I own on the wall at once was based on thinking that I couldn't keep art that wasn't on the wall. Like I wouldn't get to see it ever again. I love all of these drawings, photos, and prints of ants. But, if I have a system it will feel OK to put them away.
Feeling very fancy to have reached a stage in life where I have an "art collection." 🧐 (And I should label the back of the art, it will make it more likely for someone else to keep it in the future.)
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