How did the first gallery actually happen for you? I don't mean the first show, I mean the first time a stranger who owned a wall said yes. Mine took two years of dropping in. Same guy, month after month, I'd show up with photographs and he'd tell me to come back with something better. I was 28, thought I was too good for it, but I kept going back because my old master told me that's how it worked. One day he finally walked my studio and picked one piece. Never explained what changed. So what was yours? Did you cold-call, get introduced, have someone see your work somewhere by accident? I'm curious if anyone actually gets in through the front door anymore.
