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The Deeply Municipal Pollock
Random inspiration: deeply municipal pollock
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The pollock had been there since Tuesday, though no one remembered putting it up. Janitorial staff avoided it, not out of superstition, but because it seemed to absorb the sound of footsteps. By Friday, the coffee cup had grown a faint ring of condensation, and the sign above it had flickered once, briefly, before going dark. No one complained. It was, after all, deeply municipal.
The brief
A single, slightly wilted pollock hangs motionless from a rusted nail in a dim municipal office corridor, its scales catching the weak fluorescent glow as a half-empty coffee cup sits on a nearby filing cabinet beneath a peeling 'Quiet Zone' sign.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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