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October 03, 2006
I dreamed about this painting last night
One of my colleagues found this next to a dumpster behind the Vet School last year and hung it up in our studio hallway at Green Street. Later Audrey silkscreened the text on it as a test for this Hooper Turner painting.
So, I don't remember the context but this painting was in my dream last night. I think it may have been lying on the floor next to something red or partially covered with something red, but that's not really important to this story.
This morning at the studio, I came out of the computer lab to find Louise, our morning janitor, blocking the hallway with a garbage can (funny, it was a red can) and gazing at the painting, rapt. She didn't move the can out of the way as I approached so I walked up behind her and said, "I dreamed about this painting last night".
Louise said, "what was it doing?". I said I didn't remember and she said, "it stops me every time" (for full effect you must imagine this spoken softly in a sweet southern accent, it stahps me every tahhhm).
Every day, Louise stops in the hallway and stares at this painting. Should we give it to her?
Posted by jodi at October 3, 2006 12:03 AM | categories: dumbass
Comments
If you give it to her, it'll stop her everih tahm she goes to leave the house, and you'll have no morning janitor.
Unintended consequences, Jodi. Be careful.
Posted by: NWJR at October 3, 2006 08:04 AM
Plus, she'll have nothing to look forward to when she heads off to work.
Posted by: peter at October 3, 2006 10:32 AM
I have to admit I agree with the previous two...
Posted by: emmajane at October 3, 2006 11:47 AM
Yes, yes, yes, give it to her. It's touched her soul.
Posted by: michele at October 3, 2006 12:43 PM
It seems like it has an interesting effect on people just where it is.
Posted by: bonnie at October 3, 2006 04:01 PM