A Busy Start

When my week started, I was told that the exhibition that will be coming up will be on Friday. In order to make the proper preparations, I was put to work setting the gallery up. Mainly, my job for this day was to hang the pieces on the wall, what I thought would be a relatively easy task. As it turns out, more effort and time is put into this task than one might think when looking around in a museum. I knew there would be some easy math involved, but I didn’t think it would sound as convoluted as it did when being told it. Firstly, you start with sixty inches; then you measure the height of the piece and divide it in half, then you subtract the distance from the hanger to the top of the piece from the halved height. Finally you add this number to sixty and that is where you mark the wall for the hook to be nailed in. After hanging the first painting, the process becomes easy enough, but you also need to keep a consistent horizontal distance between paintings. Partly because this task keeps you quite involved, I had no complaints in doing it for the day.