So the floor is now painted which is making my space look a lot brighter. I wanted to get that out of the way so I could have the cabinet in its exact space and could start arranging the contacts in it. Made a newspaper walkway through my space to hopefully prevent people from walking over the clean floor. It will no doubt need touching up before the actual show either way but hopefully will make it a bit easier in the long run.
This now meant I could begin finally putting the cabinet together! I spent the majority of yesterday scraping paint off of the cabinet and polishing it. I found myself still polishing it this morning! I think I have got to the stage that every little imperfection I see on it I have sort it. This then meant it was getting to mid morning before I actually began the arranging! How would I start this arranging?
Well looking back at the idea I did before the contact cases were places staggered. This did work really well but I was tempted to lined them all up dead in line with each other so they would mirror my boards on the wall next door and keep this grid system going. I never really decided on a specific number I would have last time, however, I wanted it to have more specificity in the show. I wanted it to be executed perfectly.
I decided I would have two rows of twenty at the back of each shelf (twenty relating to the age I was when I began collecting the contact lens cases) the row second from the back would then have eighteen due to losing one either end where the shelf curved and the same with the front shelf; it would have sixteen due to the shelf shape. I took absolutely ages getting each row looking exactly the same. I was tempted to measure it, but thought I would probably be there all day. As much as my work follows pattern and repetitive actions now every thing is exactly the same. For example with my boards, on first glance they all look very similar, however, it is only once upon close inspection the viewer is able to see that in fact they are all so different. I wanted my cabinet to represent this too. So in this respect it was important I didn’t measure them.
From first glance they appear all to be the same; a cabinet full of black contact lens cases lined row by row. However, they are not, because I didn’t measure them it gives them this near perfect finish but not quite, which I do quite like. Also some contact lens cases have a plain top on, some have a little writing others have a lot. I didn’t want to get too specific with ordering them as well I just wanted them to be placed as it happened. Just like how my make-up wipes are marked from me removing my make-up, it just happens like that. I wanted my cabinet to reflect this, which I think it does.
I also noticed when working on the bottom shelf and looking up they have a completely different effect all the cases are exactly the same clear/white colour which was quite interesting seeing it in relation to the cabinet. Perhaps they could of worked better upside down? However I do like the contrast between the dark and the light.
