Every Picture Tells a Story, Don't It?
The line from the Rod Stewart song, "Every Picture Tells a Story, Don't It?" takes on literal meaning at the Flying Pig starting this Saturday (the 14th) during the "Story Starters Exhibition."
During a recent trip to a Twin Cities art crawl, Sturgeon Bay artist Tim Nyberg rescued a bolted-together configuration of stage-shaped canvases from an artist's dumpster. Tim happily handed the artist $100 for the lot of expertly-crafted unique canvases and brought them back to his Sturgeon Bay studio where he painting them with various backgrounds and added a variety of one inch plastic people (designed for "O-gauge" model railroading). The little scenes were provocative and conjured up stories. So, Tim numbered the paintings (so as to not influence writers), and posted them on his web site as springboards for creative writing.
You can view the paintings and read the writings that have been created based on the eleven images at The Flying Pig's Story Starters exhibition which runs through September 11th. At the exhibition's opening (from 5p to 7p on the 14th), some of the writers will be present to read their short stories and poems, and the artist will be available to discuss the works.
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