so a few weeks ago my girlfriend and i went out to east lansing to visit my sister (who attends michigan state university (go green (go white))) and whilst we were out there we went to the most amazing and exciting exhibit of art quite possibly ever collected in south eastern michigan ...even though the d.i.a. is pretty incredible... and even though lansing is more centrally located in the lower peninsula of michigan... you get my point, i liked it a lot. it was a collection of original sketches, prints, paintings, and sculptures from the man who calls himself seuss.
not only were the pieces incredible so were the stories collected and displayed along side the art.
in this picture there is an original drawing along side the published image from "green eggs and ham"... this piece accompanied one of my favorite stories from the museum. the publisher from random house bet seuss $50 that he could not write an engaging coherent story using 50 words or less and what seuss came up with was the story "green eggs and ham." on the bottom of the original seuss keeps track of how many words he used ("3 words" at that point).
i addition to the usual type stuff...
there was some seuss i'd never seen before
some amazing true works of art
and... some well... "unorthodox taxidermy"
...and of course quite possibly the best part is it was completely free. i highly recommend that anyone in the lansing area before the exhibit packs its bags on jan. 16th go see this collection... it is pretty incredible
...and unmistakably seuss
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