I can’t claim any credit for inventing this marvellous idea; that’s down to the highly talented photographer and fellow MA graduate Megan…
The concept is simple, using a small collection of images, you create a mini public gallery. The name of your gallery, the space you choose, is determined by the location as provided by the whatthreewords app. This app overlays the world in a grid and assigns three words to that space for a unique identifier.
I selected the wall at the back of my parking space - Broadens.Rang.Melts Anywhere would do that is accessible by the public. I’ve used a converted red phone box in the past as an exhibition space, that would be perfect for example. Megan, I understand, is using the large gates at the entrance to her house.
The social media tag to use is #whatthreewordsgalleries On Instagram the page to follow is @whatthreewordsgalleries.
What images to display? Anything! Megan sent me over some sheets of paper for creating some cyanotypes, which I was going to use. I thought it might be fun to create some from images taken from the Broadens.Rang.Melts square, print out a negative on acetate and use that to create the cyanotypes. But the results are not consistent and now my printer refuses to accept the acetate sheets to produce more; even though it happily printed off five yesterday morning.
So plan B is a display selected from the washing line project images. It is now up and viewable… not sure how they will fair in the rain mind, but easily replaced…
As the virus restrictions are slowly being lifted now is the time to put some art on display for free. I do hope people will join in as I think it is a grand idea.
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