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requires framing to properly displayed Lavish buffet tables trimmed with edible flowers form a labyrinth around the hall in a castellation formerly a bank. Oedipal ancestry of architecture and mortality. Where once tellers peered through barred windows now cocktails are handed out. (The bars are open. The bank is closed) Between doric columns speakers pipe music from a jazz trio heard but not seen. Fly me to the Moon My Sweet Embraceable You Night and Day; a Kiss to Build a Dream on Autumn Leaves. The whole room smells like wedding coffee but no one's getting married tonite. Someone's retiring maybe or being made a partner or announcing a "reimagining of the organization". "A reorganizing of the imagination" an office manager whispers to a server bending over to brush crumbs off the linen table cloth (like everything else here; it's white). Its either Autumn or Winter (or some Novembery cusp of both and neither) 1950 something. April in Paris. Individually the guests speak softly but the combined effect generates a volumetric murmur(a two sided thing both beginning and ending in mur). Other items with volume include kick drum, salad bowls, deep dish pizza, baby grand piano, magnums of Prosecco, boars heads and donors wallets. Everyone slowly gets drunk. There are long speeches, trailing anecdotes, off color jokes and snarky asides. Long lines to Women's restrooms and smoke coming from the Men's. No children are present tho people show one another their phones to prove they exist elsewhere. Wait, its 1950 something scratch that. No children are present tho people show one another their purse and billfold portraits to prove they exist elsewhere. The kids exist not the billfolds tho obviously their real too. Obviously. (Why would I make it up?) Swinging doors (3/4 sized saloon type doors with openings at top and bottom to see who's coming and who's going) separate the banquet hall from the kitchen. Within the kitchen a walk in a freezer. Within walk-in freezer (formerly a vault) lidded tubs of meats, vegetables, sauce and soup starters, burlap sacks of potatoes and muslin bags of flour and sugar. There's also a shelving unit chalk full of jars of spices. Observed closely the unit is discreetly hinged. Go to the side opposite the hinges and give a little pull and the whole unit swings away from the [i wish I could describe the arc but you get it its that of a door swinging open] wall. This process reveals an opening into, I guess, a kind of Panic Room but don't freak out because it's quite nice(if a tad austere for my tastes) and you quickly note a cadmium red telephone and simultaneously think "Hotline!". Also worth detailing are several plush chairs like dads' recliners and a long leather couch. Where there is a place to sit there is an accompanying ashtray on side tables and rolling taborets like desert carts waiters push from guest to guest offering pie or cake or flan or what have you. The panic room is pretty cool (how could an annex of a walk in freezer not be?) and you leaf through record albums to see if there's anything worth spinning. There's not. You have strict taste in music. You like to follow along with operettas, libretto in hand and pipe in mouth. If its not Baroque don't fix it. You wonder if there's any booze in the Panic Room. Of course there's booze keep looking. You wonder if anyone from the banquet has noticed your absence(you've been gone awhile now spying around absentmindedly). Several people have noticed. You're the guest of honor! Why are you off investigating rooms within rooms? Go to the bathroom and splash some cold water on your face. Sober up. You should never drink! Whats gotten into you? Look in the mirror. What do you see? Wait, how can you be looking in the mirror and not seeing yourself? Because you're not looking in a mirror silly. You're looking at a painting of a room identical to the one you're in. Not everything is about you.
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:12 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in
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"Despite strident efforts to paint the smallness of birds monuments persist. " website: www.sheltonwalsmith.com Published by The Paris Review, Knopf, Vintage, Rizzoli Books, Paris Vogue, Denver Quarterly, Shots Magazine, Harper Collins, The New York Times and others. Exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Prague, St.Thomas and Austin. His most recent one man shows was at Seven Minus Seven Gallery In the US Virgin Islands. Personal interests; weather patterns, the inner life of trees, limes, irrationality, filigreed space, tequila, the middle ages, muay thai boxing, kittens, puppies, red wine, French New Wave cinema, sharp knives, lengths of twine rolled into balls for kittens to rut and nuzzle, cowboy britches, comedy jokes, rosemary short bread, blue moons, red squares, purple rain, carrot juice, my bidet, interiors, monumentality, audit remediation, the direction up. profile pic: Self portrait holding Autumnal Brutalist collage January 26, 2022
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