“How long have you lived in the city?
“About 12 years.”
“What’s your high and low living here?”
“You mean like best times and worst times?”
“Yeah.”
“Well worst times is paying the rent here right?”
“Ha, yeah, I guess so.”
“And best times…there are a lot. Too many to name I would say.”

“I’ve moved here for art school, took a lot of art history classes. Now I collect art and antiques. Mostly 19th century art and European paintings.”
“I remember taking art history in school and it was really interesting to learn about the subtle ways art spoke out against the status quo, which at that time was usually whatever Church structure was dominant.”
“That’s true.”
“Do you feel like art today still has that sort of depth and power?”
“I think people can be a lot more blatant and obvious these days. There’s less of a Spanish Inquisition forcing people to be so subtle.”