No people, no story?

Caitlin and Roisin, art students, are given an outdoors sketching assignment.

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Caitlin: Nice. You got the perspective right.

Roisin: Don’t like drawing straight lines. Something unnatural about them.

Caitlin: Hundertwasser didn’t like them either.

Roisin: Mmm.

Caitlin: Another thing. Why do you always put people in your pictures?

Roisin: People make a story. No story, people lose interest. They move on.

Caitlin: Hammershoi kept people’s attention, even on empty rooms, without people.

Roisin: He had something else. Bit of Vermeer. And jokes, like two legged pianos. I prefer people.

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