Prompt #16: BMoA Visit

...Use your notes/freewrites from the two exhibits as a spark for a story. Remember to consider any (or all) of the following possibilities:

• Think about the art itself as a jumping off point; borrow one of the images and/or subjects in the art you saw and write a story about it.
• Write something set in one of the exhibiting rooms. Think about how to convey that pervasive red in the Renaissance room, for instance. What might happen in such a room? Could be something mysterious, like an art heist, or it could be something mundane, like a security guard making her umpteenth pass through there and finally, as if for the first time, seeing something new in one of the paintings.
• Or you can write something that imagines the life of the artist her/himself. For example, the people in the contemporary art exhibit who dunked their heads in the water. Write a story about those actual people. Who are they? What are they thinking when they're dunking their heads? Are they related? Are they married? What did they do after they dunked their heads? Go for coffee? Make more art? What do they do for Thanksgiving?