The Truck Gallery emerges just in time for the Sausalito Art Festival

It started out as an art cage, but by the end of the night it almost made sense and looked like an art wall. I started off in the morning with some grid wall and connecters. I just kept adding a piece of wood here and bracket there and by 3pm I was able to put on actual photo fresco pieces. As I added the actual framed pieces to the structure I was able to remove most of the grid wall and the printed frames themselves tightened up the structure. I hardly stopped throughout the day, except to help my daughter for 15 minutes paint her car with chalkboard paint, and worked up a good sweat jumping up and down on the truck. My battery for the drill was worn out and by the end of the day I was only able to do one or two screws before I had to put the battery back in the charger.

I didn't have to go to the hardware store at all and was able to use wood from other projects and bent nails. Some of the brackets and screws had already been purchased, but I felt like I didn't want to stop and just moved forward with the things I had. I hand sawed the 2 X 4s and found nails in the leaves around the yard. My anxiety increased throughout the day when I realized the Sausalito Art Show was starting Friday and I would need to get a parking spot on the street in order to have a chance at displaying this work in the area that I like to park.

I removed most of the original grid wall and put some diagonal strips of wood all around the structure for additional support, then nervously pulled from my driveway and onto Highway 1. I drove extremely slow and held my breath on every dog legged turn down the mountain. Traffic looked like a nightmare going North because the Bay Bridge is closed this weekend, but it wasn't bad in my direction. I didn't have to merge onto the main freeway and was able to get off the freeways as fast as I got on since I was barely going one exit. I found a parking spot where the sun would hit the truck and then sat down on the side of the road and thought about how the truck would do the rest of the work by just sitting there.