I have a portable machine that can be used in front of an audience up to a practical limit of 7 rows deep. This assumes that the back rows have good eyesight and hearing! At these shows I talk through what I am doing and explain the whole process or as much of it that the audience seems interested in. I encourage continuous questions because I work best with a freewheeling interactive style with no fixed subject matter save the ongoing project. Only relatively simple things are made at these shows, mushrooms or bottle stoppers and to avoid the scramble I used to get, whatever is made is given to the organizer to auction. With a good, interested crowd and a pleasant evening, this helps cover my fee.
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