“I’ll bite,” Miranda said. “What is it?”
“It’s my masterpiece,” Malcolm answered.
“Okay. But what is it?” Miranda asked again.
“I call it ‘Waste Not, Want Not,’” he responded. “It’s ecologically and environmentally friendly. I’m sending a message about recycling and reusing things and turning it all into art.”
“It looks like you’ve stacked seven shipping pallets on top of one another and filled them with broken Spanish roofing tiles, some cracked clay flower pots, sticks, and some pieces of copper tubing,” Miranda said, “with a few bunches of grass on top.”
“Exactly,” Malcolm said proudly. “‘Waste Not, Want Not.’”
(100 words)
Written for Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ Friday Fictioneers prompt. Photo credit: Sandra Crook.
This, That, and the Other 
I remember many decades ago in Berkeley, seeing the empty engine compartment of some old truck filled with dirt and flowers. Very creative. A lot of people here in Southwestern Idaho want to replace traditional lawns with native plant species, which would use less water (though we almost never experience drought conditions) and be more friendly to local birds, small animals, and insects.
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“Art” is in the eye of the beholder. Two years ago I made my small backyard “drought resistant.”
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Malcolm needs to listen to Miranda. She has a great eye for detail that will help his creative art no end – even though she herself lacks any artistic creativity whatsoever. I like the way you use your story to describe two very different personalities who nevertheless are compatible.
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Thanks. Yes, they do have very different perspectives, don’t they.
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Dirt is just matter out of place. And the decision as to what’s out of place, changes with time and location
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Ha! Ha! I found this one to be very humorous. And they do something similar here, in the public gardens on a smaller scale: Bee hotels they’re called. 😉
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Couple of years ago, there was this guy who came to the hair dresser where I was getting a hair cut to purchase some hair. He said it was for his art.
Us muggles can’t get them, can we?
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This morning, over breakfast I was studying the picture prompt and I asked my husband what he thought it was… his answer was very similar to Miranda’s. Ha!
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If it were in Australia, I’d call it a stingless bee (indigenous) apartment block
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Hmm. I’ll have to google that.
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Art is an attitude.
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So what kind of art are you into, Sensei?
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Magritte, Escher, Dali, whatever.
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Ha ha – nicely done! Art is in the eye of the beholder!
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Yes it certainly is!
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Miranda has got it spot on to be fair, but what she hasn’t realised is that it saves a trip to the tip.
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Everything has another purpose. Nicely done.
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Thanks, Sandra.
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. I have a hard time seeing anything but piled up junk, but there sure have been a lot of creative stories that it engendered 🙂
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True. I guess a pile of junk can be inspiring.
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I’m with Malcolm – even if he doesn’t realise he’s helping nature along the way with his ‘art’.
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Miranda just doesn’t have much imagination, does she? 🙂
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No. She’s a pragmatist.
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Lovely contrast of personalities,
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Ha ha, great job!
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