We’re getting close. Overheard opens on Jan. 15, 2010 at gallery@calit2.
Most of the prototyping work I do is “non-precious,” and for some time I felt like the rope&pulley assemblies belonged in this category. Once we started sorting out the details of how to get our equipment to the gallery for installation, I realized that these pieces I have fabricated, while still prototypes in many ways, no longer qualify as “non-precious.” Now that they will take part in a public art installation, I must treat them as valuable. They have to arrive at the gallery site in January in working order and need to return to me in March in the same condition, so I’m packing accordingly.
I’ve built LCDs and computers into rugged equipment cases for clients in the past, but this is the first time I’m preparing to ship something I made across the country.