These artfully carved squash products were in the produce section at a Monoprix on Boulevard de l'Hôpital in the 13th. I have to say that I was a little taken aback to find something so pretty and decorative just sitting there, with no fanfare, in a local outpost of a major supermarket (and everythingmarket) chain. Just wanted to put that out there and ask, in the immortal words of Dr. Gordon, my AP Calculus teacher:
What's going on here?
Would this everever happen in the U.S.? Who's the artist and what is (s)he doing sequestered in a Monoprix in rainy December Paris when (s)he clearly belongs on a sunny cruise ship deck in the Caribbean, fashioning admirable edibles and getting a tan?
Sorry for my extended absence, folks; got into some serious final examming. But now I'm back, and I thought this would be a timely topic for a lot of us:
I took this picture during my class at the Sorbonne on Wednesday afternoon. The girl next to me is actually knitting during class, sitting quite visibly in the second row--with very few people sitting in the first. Which leads me to today's question:
These artfully carved squash products were in the produce section at a Monoprix on Boulevard de l'Hôpital in the 13th. I have to say that I was a little taken aback to find something so pretty and decorative just sitting there, with no fanfare, in a local outpost of a major supermarket (and everythingmarket) chain. Just wanted to put that out there and ask, in the immortal words of Dr. Gordon, my AP Calculus teacher:
Please forgive my lengthy absence; I spent much of the last week face-first in an Art History paper on Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, one of whose paintings (Grand Canal (Venise)) is pictured above. Finally handed it in on Thursday, and I guess that since then, I've just been recovering. But, in honor of all the time I spent with these two artists, my question is: