Most museums hang a sky study the way they hang anything else: centred on a line about 150 centimetres from the floor. For Amber hour we tried something slower. We lowered the small studies until the horizon in each picture met the horizon of a person standing in front of it.
Looking out, not up
A cloud painted from a field was seen from a field. When you meet it at that height, the sketch stops being an object on a wall and becomes a window again. Several visitors have told us they stood further back than usual, as if the weather might reach them.
It cost us three weeks of rehanging and one long argument with the lighting team. We think it was worth both.