day four: frantic

(friday, june 2)

friday was the day of the private opening of kinsey's work, in which the high-rollers from dallas would show uup to view his work and hopefully buy. it's the first time that art prositute has had a private opening prior to the public opening, so it was a pretty big occasion. therefore, i showed up at about 10:30 per mark's request, and the place was already in a nervous fervor. my first task of the day was to take brian's car and go pick up kinsey at his hotel and relocate him to the place he would be staying for the next two nights; then i was to bring him to the gallery so that the show could be hung. once kinsey was at the gallery, i began creating gift bags that would be handed out to gallery guests. the bags would contain a set of pins (including the new one i designed), some postcards, some posters, etc. i also spent much of the afternoon preparing the frames for kinsey's drawings, which was nerve wracking since it involved a rather powerful drill with a large bit inches from precious artwork. after this task was done i started making the buttons, which is a laborious task, especially when your goal is 600 buttons for the night. i had several people helping during this portion, and this job was taken over by others when i had to jump on the computer and create some signage for the door that announced the show's sponsors. the show started at 6:00, and by 7:00 i was exhausted and ready to go home.

so that's what i did.