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[EMAIL DRAFT, UNSENT]

From: Cassie Greenberg [[email protected]]

To: David Gutierrez [[email protected]]

Subject: submission for Contemporary Society art show

Dear David,

I wish to submit for consideration my three-dimensional oil and plastics mixed-media piece, Manor House on a Placid Lake, for River North Gallery’s ContemporarySociety art exhibition in March. The dimensions of the canvas itself are three feet by two feet, with a cellophane-and-tinsel sculpture attachment extending out from the canvas another ten inches.

I have attached five JPEG images of my completed piece to this email for your consideration. Pursuant to the parameters set out in the Request for Submissions, the finished piece will be available for display in your gallery upon request.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Cassie S. Greenberg

By the time I got to the art studio, Sam and Scott were already there, standing in front ofManor Houseand staring at it with matching expressions I couldn’t parse.

They didn’t look horrified, at least. That was something.

I dropped my bag off at an empty cubicle and stood beside them. “Thanks so much for taking pictures for me,” I said to Scott. He had a fancy camera with a name I didn’t recognize and was a great amateur photographer. I was grateful he was available to do this. I was planning to submit to the River North Gallery art exhibition that evening, and while I’d already drafted my email to David, I needed to attach five pictures of my piece to it to be considered.

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