John Storrow

 They needed some clouds. The houses on the wind swept hill by the sea were tired of looking up at a blank blue sky, so they erected a two hundred foot tall trellis to hold up some wooden clouds that they cut out of whatever wood they could find. At the moment this painting was “Taken like a photo” there was a lull in the wind which was long enough to allow the wooden clouds to stop swinging. It must have been a pretty long lull. As you can see, some actual clouds (depicted) are beginning to appear on the horizon. I guess one could imagine the houses represent people, because people can live in houses. Houses are way easier to draw and paint than people. They’re just boxes with pointy tops and windows.

  I tried to express the idea of gravity with the weight of this great bulbous hanging water tank which is connected to the sea. The water comes gushing in from all over the word and collects in the tank before it slowly drips down through a tiny hole, causing the water wheel to spin, which causes an electric motor to generate electricity, which powers the lightbulb that lights up the under ground room with a single chair. I don’t know why there’s only one chair, or why it’s so far under the weight of the sea. Perhaps I just needed a convenient purpose for the power that could come from the motor. It’s incredibly interesting that you can either power a motor to make it spin, or spin a motor to make it give power. I remember vividly, in my youth, I once had a plastic kit for an electric motor, that you could put together. Miraculous machines they are indeed.

  At the exact moment this picture supposedly “was taken like a photo” the flying machine was precisely above the building, with its wheels almost touching the corners of the building. The wind was blowing it back at the same speed that it was flying forward. It was a colossal flying machine with a four hundred foot wide wingspan. Its wings were made of green cotton cloth and it had very long wooden spars that had to be spliced together in sections because you can’t get single pieces of wood that long. I don’t know where the flying machine will go next, when the wind shifts or it runs out of gas, but at least we know where it is at the moment, it’s in the painting.