My Walls Are Hung Salon Style and My Brand Strategy Works the Same Way

There is a wall in my home that I love unreasonably.

It is hung salon style. Which means there is no single focal point, no careful grid, no breathing room between frames. There are paintings I made, paintings friends made, things I found at thrift stores, a print I bought at a museum, a piece of framed ephemera that means something only to me. They are grouped by instinct and resonance rather than by size or color or any principle I could explain in advance.

People who come to my home either immediately understand something about me from that wall or they stand in front of it looking slightly overwhelmed.

Both responses tell me something useful.

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