On 18th May 2008 I held my first exhibition of my collected car boot items at 'The Big One' in Leeds. We arrived at 6.01am and were immediately surrounded by dealers who were peering into the back of my car to see what we'd brought. They shouted questions like "Jewellery? Records? Mobile Phones?" We just gave them a terrified look and said no! I set up the table as seen above, and people started to come to talk to me about what my stall was all about. I got a great deal of feedback from my audience and got a real sense of the community at that car boot. The people who attend it are very friendly, and they were interested in my project. There was quite a large range of ages and races. There seemed to be a large Muslim community who go every weekend to chat and gossip. There was a bouncy castle for the children to play on, and I noticed there was always one parent supervising them as they played so the other parents could wander and chatter.
Quite a few people engaged with my catalogues and looked through them to get information about certain objects. Because the car boot sale is quite close to the airport there were quite a few people I spoke to who had just popped in because they were on their way back from the airport and noticed all the cars. There were of course, regulars there that come every weekend to have a wander and to get out the house. A few people I spoke to said they were there just to walk off a hangover!
Over the course of the morning I spoke to many different people from all walks of life, I heard many different languages being spoken, I got asked if I was selling my camera, and made a profit of £10 by selling some of my objects!
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