The Beaded Curtain

This has been, by far, the longest running GALL project ever. Hopefully, it will remain to be.

The idea was a coalescence of Chris being dead set on a junk art project, and me thinking that beaded curtains are pretty cool. At one of the primordial GALL planning meetings (before we started actually doing things at meetings instead of just planning them), we thought it would be a good idea to build a beaded curtain out of bottle caps.

Little did we know, it would take us months to complete it with the showing that we had at the time (about 3-4 people would show up for any given meeting). Nonetheless, we worked...

And worked

And worked

By the time the spring semester ended, we still hadn't finished it.

I regretfully packed what we had of the beaded curtain - three-and-a-half strands of bottle caps - into a box, and put it in storage with the Office of Student Activities and Community Service over the summer.

Following Club Carnival in the fall, we had 35 members at our first official GALL meeting. By the time we got to working on the curtain again, the numbers were still in the twenties.

The little minions had ats and managed to finish the thing in three weeks despite a Gordian Knot caused by poor storage practices (my bad, guys).

So, when we finally had the thing constructed with each strand in a separate bag, I got with facilities, and one early Wednesday morning, erected the thing in front of the Eagle's Nest.

For good measure, I left our marking on the sidewalk.

And some puns

--Mike Isaacson GALL President