My assumptions in working for a commercial gallery were to directly associate with selling artworks and talking to clients.

I expected the working environment to be formal and professional. After revisiting the gallery, I worked on packaging artwork that was ready to be shipped to Toronto. I didn’t expect Wil to be busy in the daytime and I was at the gallery alone on my first day on the job. I was worried that I would have made mistakes when no one was supervising me, but Wil gave me a really detailed description about my tasks and that helped a lot. I learnt that working is not like studying in school, sometimes there are no guidelines and I have to find a way out by asking more questions.

This project provides me useful insights and a better understanding of the art world and how commercial galleries function.

WAAP addresses the need to reflect artists’ way of seeing and thinking who have a different point of view. The goal of WAAP is to create the condition for young artists to develop their practice within the city. I hope WAAP will gain more publicity through this project.

Wil expected us to learn something out of this experience and develop  better connections in the industry.

There are no important deadlines but I’ll work in researching the benefits of a corporate collection throughout the fall. I’m also working on WAAP’s Weibo account (which similar to Twitter).

The project’s schedule runs weekly and we will get feedback and self-reflect on how much work has being accomplished.

Feedback will be collected through our conversations as it is fairly open and helpful.

We used to communicate through email, but now we have a WhatsApp group for the three of us, making it much faster for responses. We communicate very frequently, at least a couple times a week.