[Ditter]

I love to tell this story. When I was taking art classes at Glassel Art School in Houston, our painting class was taken to a gallery to see a new exhibit.

A girl had taken dead tree branches , stood them up in the middle of the room and hung rubber chickens from the branches.

Try to imagine my disgust at this waste of time.

[Kirkwood]

I knew a prof in a physics dept who took a bunch of surplused microwave conduits and turned them into tree-like sculptures. He then placed them in the quad near the fine art dept building. They were out there for many days before someone figured out they weren’t an exhibit.