The Market set up again, but it was a whole different market that had been there the day before. I had never realised how much a market could change day by day, having set out my own stall two days previous I was appreciative of their early morning efforts and appreciated the speed with which they set out their stalls for the days business.

This was my first day of being totally alone in invigilating the exhibition, but having had two days practice, I was ready to field the questions and the queries from my visitors. I was quite surprised at how I had become so quickly an expert at this task, but needs must.

I had spent two days with people asking me “Who is the artist?” today the question became “ Are you the artist?” This was achieved y the simple trick of looking like an artist. Andy Warhol and Picasso had their artists clothes and I had mine, I admit they were fairly derivative, but they worked.

Figure 01 An artist standing in front of his works

If you are going to be in a pantomime, you must be in costume, the boots were brand new and didn’t do my feet any favours over the course of the weekend, they did however remove any doubt as to who the artist was to complete strangers. There is also no point being an artist on social media if you don’t look like an artist

At around 11.00 James the gallery publicist arrived and conducted an interview with me that can be seen here https://www.instagram.com/p/CiF3UWZIoKT/

Probably one thing that cannot be understated is the importance of bread and milk to the success of the exhibition, part of my supporting cast was the Tesco Express next door but one, people would pop in on their way to or from Tesco’s to buy essential supplies and browse the paintings. Some of them became almost daily visitors and all of them lived “just around the corner”, I imagined that they had a cooking hobby with scant storage space in their kitchens.

Around 16.00 a primary school teacher cane to visit and we had an animated conversation as to how she could recreate the Light in a Box pieces with her pupils without the Health and Safety risk of the pupils handling broken glass.