1 Would Van Gogh mind?

 

Over the years I collected so many art museum postcards, scraps from art magazines and other pretty pictures that it finally dawned on me what to do with all that stuff. Why not hang them on the bathroom wall across the loo? Though I, being a woman, tend to spend less time on doing number two, most husbands or men do seem to spend a minimum of 30 minutes sitting on the can. Instead of getting brain fog from scrolling on a smartphone, I thought it would be much more inspiring, perhaps even educational to gaze at art for a few minutes a day. Let that sink in. So I plaster the bathroom tiles next to the toilet paper dispenser with my otherwise useless artwork ONE PAINTING AT A TIME. Reproductions of course, paper scraps. 

Do I really care if Van Gogh minded that we look at his art while taking a dump? No. This one here is called "The Harvest", painted in Arles in1888. God knows why this German art booklet it came from called it "the vegetable garden", cause what on earth is the lady in the foreground picking? Palm leaves, christmas tree twigs? The painting is fun to look at because you can't see everything at once, but once you discovered all the working people, you also realize how Van Gogh goofed up on sizing his creatures. Again: who cares, I claim? It's a jolly nice work from the old Dutch man, certainly worth our while staring at it straight from the can.