I am super excited about this project which i started a few days after coming back home as a way to "relax" in the evening without falling off my art making wagon. I took a somewhat guilty trip to home depot for the pure purpose of helping myself to their entire line of Behr paint chips. i could not take more than the first section without looking like an unabashed thief. I snuck back home where, after a long day of playing with legos and dinosaurs, i turned on my new audio book (thank you library) and cut out my best attempts at perfect circles of each shade of paint chip. The "rules" of cutting are simple, no re-cuts, backups, tracing of any sort, and keep each color series (a section of 7 paint chips in light to dark of one color) sorted in order with the "negative space" paint chip remnants in separate envelopes.
So far i have worked through the red and orange into the yellow. This was all going well until i ran out of envelopes two nights ago (i had about 170 left in my box of 200 when i started this). i decided to start figuring out the installation thing before going further. i nailed the color series with a 1 1/2" finish nail in the center lightest circle on top darkest on bottom and stuck it on my wall.
Magic! i am thrilled with the way it almost disappears when viewed from the front and then eclipses like the moon when you move around it. the uneven circles seem to peek out and then disappear. i have nailed about 15 of them but haven't hung all of them up yet. the results of the first circle on the wall are definitely motivating me to finish the entire project.
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| looking at paint chip from front |
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| starting to walk to side |
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| side far away |
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| front from about 8 feet away |
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| spacing will be more even when i install |
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| for reference the nail is 1 1/2 inches long and about 1/4-1/2 inch is in wall |
more on the concepts of perfection, utopia, and control some other day.
