When I asked Sterling, one of Okay Mountain’s members, what he thought of the success of their installation he replied something like, “Man, it’s the shit.” I took that to mean he thought it was pretty great. Most of the publicity went OK's way, but keep in mind that it was Sue Graze and Elizabeth Dunbar and the folks at Arthouse that brought them there in the first place. Great too to see the number of Austinites in attendance and support of the installation.

It was easy to spend a long time in the “store”—a swell of entertaining tongue-in-cheek humor. The volume of items was impressive and the realization of the place down to small detail was absolutely terrific. With the commentary on art fair commerce in mind, I felt compelled to buy something, so I came away with 2 quarts of oil—will the circle be unbroken? MC