As the exhibition’s opening neared, old pressures returned. A landlord issued a notice about the lot’s property. A family member fell ill and needed extra money. Angel’s shifts doubled; she started to run on borrowed hours and coffee. The gallery wanted the installations to feel honest—not polished relics of poverty but living artifacts. Angel refused to let the Workyard vendors be romanticized. She pushed for the show to pay the vendors for their participation and to credit them properly. There were tense conversations with the gallery: budgets were thin; the gallery’s usual patrons expected tidy narratives, not messy reality.

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