Tezos

The Failed Artist 71 (self portrait): My last day at work.

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Description

This painting depicts an incident at work- as you know I was a McDonald's employee prior to becoming an unsuccessful artist - the event depicted is actually my last day working for the company I loved. What happened was I referred to my boss as a clown during an everyday conversation with one of my colleagues, unfortunately another colleague overheard this and reported me to my boss, presenting the conversation as disparaging when in actual fact I was merely observing to my work mate that our boss was a clown, much in the same way one might mention something like, for example, " My boss has a ginger moustache." in other words, a perfectly innocent, casual conversation was turned into something else which resulted in the debacle I have painted here. It turned out my boss was not in fact a clown, it's just the way he looked and, somewhat understandably he was sick and tired of being referred to as a clown, as he explained just before he struck me with a lump hammer; thankfully the hammer turned out to be made from lightweight rubber so I was not harmed during what had seemed to me to be my execution, as an aside the prospect of my imminent death had filled me with a curious serenity which I have attempted to convey in my own ham fisted fashion in this artwork. After this occurrence my boss took a custard pie off a shelf and thrust it into my face, he then left abruptly on his unicycle and told me to get the fuck out of his restaurant. I subsequently heard I had been replaced by a seal who juggled; so began the downward trajectory of my fortunes.

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