Lost and Stolen Items

If I was an evil wizard, and had to have somewhere to stash pieces of my soul, I would put them in my art.

This is a weird way of saying that I pour my heart and soul into every one of my creative endeavors. I have previously blogged about my secretly Ginger art teacher who throws away art. My art. Today I had had enough. I wrote a descriptive list of all of my projects that I wanted back. I included their whereabouts, when I knew them. I said I wanted them all by Friday. I walked up and gave her the list. Her response to me was that some of them were "Gone." She didn't say that, instead of passing everything back like every other reasonable art teacher on this great green Earth, she had decided to throw them away. She simply referred to them as, "gone."

 But we could look for some of the other ones. 

 I found one, and she gave me a pass to get the others from their positions in the Front Office and Theater Lobby. I was fearless, walking up and removing artwork from the walls of my school without a second thought. I felt like an art-thief, but I wasn't. If anyone had attempted to stop me, I would have said that I was "reclaiming lost and stolen property." It felt very empowering.

Georgia O'Keefe.

This was done on blue construction paper with chalk pastels. This was not what she assigned, but this is what I did.

Again, not what was assigned. But I'm not an Elementary School student..

Several of my pieces are laminated because she had prepared them to use as examples for next year...without so much as a heads-up. Grr.

Anyway, I found this one.

I call it "dismemberment," In this picture is a little square of a magazine picture. The whole thing was designed  to camouflage it. See if you can find it!

As a side note, I would like to reflect upon the importance of inflection. (here, represented in italics.)

She came in and said, "oh good! You found one!"
"Yes." I said, "I found one."
I asked if there were any more. She said that "They were just too old. I couldn't keep them all."
I agree with her. She shouldn't keep them all. It is ridiculous.