SIMPLE THINGS
by Charlie Finch



In 1969, I was put in charge of packing and carting a bunch of student paintings for a show of high-school artists at the Rhode Island School of Design. So preoccupied was I with the safe shipment of my friends' masterpieces that I forgot to bring my own paintings, knockoffs of the two big art stars at the time, Larry Poons and Jules Olitski. What to do?

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