Science…

This one’s a little hard to explain, but bare with me.
I checked my work junkmail for the first time in months today, and found this mysterious piece of frustration art sitting in there with the simple subject line, “My boredom.” At first inspection, it was apparent only that it came from a camera phone, was sent sometime in early October, and had been taken somewhere inside of my office. I had to look up the phone number on the phone to realise it came from my Bossman.

Ponderously, he never said a word to me about this–that the photo was taken, that it was sent… that he was bored that day, even. But something about that conference call made him decide that his boredom needed to be documented, transformed into a Workingman’s Still-Life.

And this is the essence of science.