I Read Stories: Place De Stalingrad by D A Hosek

Place De Stalingrad by D A Hosek in Ligeia

Jack, Robert and our unnamed narrator were art students in Paris, then the money ran out. All three of them decided to remain, Jack and the narrator setting up as street artists, drawing tourists and selling paintings of the sights*. Robert is in it for the art. (They’re all in it for the art or they’d go home to America). He draws great, complex, intricate things in the streets, and then they are washed away by the rain. His work gone. How does he survive?

Does that even matter?

Read This: What compromises can we, must we make for art?
Don’t Read This: It’s just chalk and paint, there’ll be more along soon

* A friend of mine did this in a local tourist city during a university break, but after selling one painting was told to sling his hook by the Old Bill. No appreciation for the arts!