"Bored" security guard fixes $1m painting so its faceless characters have eyes

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Yeah, it changes everything:

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Sometimes quite drastically:

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Good thing nobody put teeth for eyes on it.

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oddly, i like the painting BETTER with eyes…

also - thanks for the googly eyes posts - cant ever have too many googly eyes
they DO make everything better

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i actually think it’s a tasteful addition, too. but altering works of art in a gallery is just not cool.

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Banksy had the courtesy to not do his version on the original painting

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I’d like to party with that Dude.

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I must say, @beschizza, interesting choice of words to put quotes around… I have such a clear image of the type of guy who defaces a valuable artwork on his first day on the job.

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I will confess, and I think the statute of limitations has passed, that I ‘improved’ several identical paintings in a budget motel that my job put me in repeatedly in the nineties.
Each room had an identical original painting of a sailing ship in an ocean landscape (like Bob Ross). I added a ballpoint pen skull and crossbones to the mainsail on each that I visited on business trips over several years.
Unfortunately, I never got to stay again in a room that had my modification on the painting. It was a pretty big motel.

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As a kid, I was so creeped out by a faceless doll I was given (It was Amish-made, and they don’t depict faces) that I drew a face on it with markers.

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The good news is - that should be removable.

When I worked at an art museum, we had to walk through every night looking for damages like that.

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Ooh, ballpoint pen; that’s going to be a right git to get out.

@mr_raccoon I disagree with Savannah Police; that is clearly, very much, a laughing matter. :joy::joy::joy:

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