It could have happened to me...
13So several weeks ago an Artist (a successful Sculptor) friend’s spouse posted on Facebook the tragedy of realizing three valuable metal sculptures had been stolen from their backyard.
One of the pieces was on loan from another artist friend and one was scheduled to go on exhibit out of state in the near future.
These are heavy, people or bigger-sized sculptures in metal, one of them cast.
The couple has lots of Facebook friends and of course everyone chimed in the disgust of the theft. They filed a police report. And the story was picked up in the local paper, with photos and interviews of the spouse and police.
The Artist was out of the country in Italy on a collaborative art project for several weeks but chiming in on Facebook as he shared the cool stuff they were doing over there with stone and cad/cam.
He came back to the US this past week and drove up to their summer home where he also keeps a studio.
New Facebook post…
I drove up to the studio and saw the three missing pieces! I had forgotten that before my trip to Itally, I took them there!
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The “it could have happened to me” part is my absent-mindedness.
That fountain has nothing at all to do with the story - I just happened to be chilling out in front of it as I wrote that post.
/giphy derp
Age and Permanent Confusion have their privileges
Plot twist - They really were stolen, but then the thief felt bad or couldn’t find a buyer and so left them at the vacant studio hoping for this best case scenario.
@hisgrossness Certainly a possibility, even if remote, since the other location is very rural and about 230 miles away! Either way my friends would have been greatful to get the sculptures back - they were heartbroken to find them “missing”.
The crazy thing is we have vacation property a couple miles from theirs and often check on theirs since we drive by it. We were there over the 4th during this “tragedy” but too busy to check in - or I would have recognized the “missing” pieces.
That was so funny. Thanks for sharing. I am not sure that I can imagine it happening to me because that move must have taken a lot of work, but then again I do have some senior moments. I also tend to dream that I have done things, or said things and then find out it never happened so I can sympathize.