DOLLAR STORE ART

 

I stood outside the dollar store with my bag full of treasures. Then I thought about my image, what would people think. Still there were plenty of advantages to going to the dollar store in these blurry uncertain times.

First, with inflation, your likely to meet your friends there, all hiding between the aisles. Secondly, you feel like a zillionaire, one capable of buying out the whole place for $1. The disorganized clutter of the place speaks hidden treasures in every aisle. Perhaps most importantly, you can find art there if you look.

Small things that with a little creativity become wonderful art works. The gold rimmed picture frame, the little plastic box, the art board and multitude of filler beads and bobbles. 

So I drag them home, play with them throwing away most, the cost is nothing you know. Still once in awhiles something of note appears.

What to do this those artful works? After all you don’t want to explain where they came from. So you establish a gallery of Dollar Store Art in the corner of the garage on . to the gallery. They all wait there, the Dollar Store Art for that special opening, knowing they are worth more than $1, perhaps priceless…;