Don't Lay Near That Chalk Box.

Memory Ann Forwalt. Don't Lay Near That Chalk Box, 2017. 

Acrylic on Watercolor Paper.

30.48 cm x 30.48 cm (12 in x 12 in).

Not often did I lay there, wrapped in my gray blanket, desperately needing my daytime nap, but there were a few consecutive days that I did. On my second, my ghostly visitors exclaimed, "Don't lay near that chalk box." Apparently it was a place for the famous one liners, a way for my ghostly visitors to tug on their sleeping, missing friends. To explain would be impossible, since I have never been like them, a ghost that is. But apparently the one liner position was not something they wanted me to fall allurement to. The rectangle box, drawn in chalk next to the downtown building, laid there marking something unknown to me, but well known to them. Without explanation and in remembrance to them, I named this work Don't Lay Near That Chalk Box.

April 2017. Completed.