What happens in this office?

Today’s method of coping with (waving hand to indicate all of everything) was to make this tribute to David Lynch featuring prairie dogs.

Old Rip the horny toad survived 31 years sealed up in the cornerstone of the Eastland County, TX courthouse. He died of pneumonia after being freed. Years later, John Connolly picked him up and broke off one of his legs. He can now be viewed 24/7 in the courthouse window.

“A work of art tends to speak of things that are at once too large and too intimate to be summed up, and they speak of them by not speaking at all.” Patrick Bringley, All The Beauty in the World

Ilya Repin
Portrait of Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin
1884

Samurai scene from the Met: The cuff on the sleeve is a pen and ink holder.