SIX TIMES WHEN HAVING YOUR FIRST UNDERGRADUATE SOLO SHOW IS A WONDERFUL BUT NERVE-WRACKING EXPERIENCE

1. When the room is giant and empty and full of potential

and your beautiful elf boyfriend has a cooler jumpsuit than you

2. When your beautiful elf boyfriend is supposed to help but he is too busy being beautiful

and he made a bet with you that he'd stop playing Vain Glory on his IPad for
two weeks if you do a handstand for ten seconds, but you can't figure out how to do it

3. When your friend is supposed to help but she is too busy sleeping

and you're so deliriously tired that you consider using her in
your art show as a performance art piece

4. When you're rushing too much to get the keys for the tools closet so you squeeze through the bars instead

and you're so stressed out about having less than a week to
install your first ever show that you've lost enough weight
to actually fit

5. When even your sugar glider is stressing out

and you just want to reminisce on your own glory days of relaxing
in a pineapple, except you never had any days like that

6. When you're broke so you make all the food yourself

and the chocolate strawberries turn out great but your beautiful
elf boyfriend made them, not you

and you put candied dried flowers onto the cupcakes
as decoration but people actually eat them

And yet, somehow, it all comes together in the end.

Video footage and editing by Brooke Foti and Bill Pritchard 

- final product edited by me (so if anything looks off, that was probably my addition)

Art show made possible by the UConn IDEA Grant - Show held March 2015 in VAIS Gallery - Thanks to Professor Ray DiCapua