I had the pleasure to take part in the Los Angeles Chain Letter this year. I arrived at 7:30a.m., doors open at 10a.m. and was about the 10th person to go in and place my artwork in pretty much an empty room. Choosing the center of the big X pathway as the position for my sculpture. I decided to take one of the iron pieces in case something happened, it wouldn’t break.
The line really started to fill up about 9a.m. (part of it’s in the video below) and by 12:30pm when I left it was down one side and around the corner and back to almost the driveway entrance… long… No one knew how many artists would fit… at noon the main gallery was up to at least 500-600 and were starting to send artists to the two other locations in Bergamot Station, I was told they cut it off at 1,700… WOW! AND it seems that the drop off event caused a line to form on the I-10 freeway and they shut down the offramp… causing an even greater traffic jam on the streets. The city certainly was aware that we, the artist community, existed that day. Pick-up is the end of August… that will be another day of interest for sure…