Valerie Thibodaux
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Unsolicited observations on everything...
Stories (2/0)
Art Crime: The Forgotten Side of Sustainability
“Art crime?” “Did you say art crime?” This conversation has happened so many times. Someone I meet asks me innocently what I do. I politely reply that I do research, knowing the next question is, “What kind of research?”, and knowing how complex the answer will be. Of all the words to associate with ‘art,’ crime is not the one anyone expects.
By Valerie Thibodaux3 years ago in FYI
The Book on the Bench
It was just sitting there, alone on the bench's wooden slats, almost invisible in the grey November afternoon. I didn't even notice it until I sat down. I recognized it at once, of course; I have had so many of those little books tucked into pockets and bags over the years, with their smooth black covers and their snappy elastics, and the page-mark peeking out one end or another. I had come there to think, but suddenly all the greater issues were brushed away by the smaller. Who had left it? Did they know they had lost it? I jerked my head up and scanned the garden, looking for someone nearby, someone searching, anyone whom the notebook might belong to. But it was a cold day in the Tuileries when only a wandering and preoccupied soul would linger, and the few people there were only shapes in the distance.
By Valerie Thibodaux3 years ago in Humans