Today it was Aussies who asked

 

you do this full-time?

 

that's what it takes

whilst combing through craigslist for another job, with three weeks left before some contribution to the rent was finally an absolute necessity, someone sent me a picture of the print they'd bought from me for US$20 the day before

hung in frame on a wall behind glass

twenty minutes after I sent the first email, for a pharmacy in need of a courier, I got a call

 

so what do you do now?

 

I run an art gallery

 

oh god

for fifteen, sixteen dollars an hour you're gonna be gone in a few months we don't need that

 

I was taken aback by their belief in the potential for things to pick up in such short order

 

it was nearly two years since I'd sold the first print, from a negative exposed on the then-US$2.75 ferry into the city

a man with a gun asked for my

 

you got a card? the square card?

 

huh

 

the press pass

a man with a gun shouted over the barricade that he'd seen me around at these events and that next time he'll tell them to let me through

i have work

 

envoyez-moi

 

gimme all ur fuckin money

 

 

 

 

 

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