“Stories can be used to obfuscate or inflate an item’s value- as in the pitch of a used-car salesman- but Kaprow’s telling of how meaningful the contents of his bucket were had to be trustworthy for a fair trade to take place. Since all fair trades are based on a mutual trust, “the ethics of friendliness” were key to this enactment. With the wink of an eye and a firm handshake, Kaprow’s storytelling moved the trading forward, animating its social interactions and adding narrative value to the dirt from bucket to bucket. It became clear to Kaprow that storytelling was integral to the work’s unfolding: he was telling stories of the trading as the trading was generating stories. Storytelling, in this sense, is not recollection after the fact, but the metaphorical expression of what one is doing as one is doing it.”
so, tell yourselves better stories about the things you do, but be sure to acknowledge with a wink and be worth a firm handshake.