green tote

I bought a tote bag from the Metropolitan Museum of Art for four dollars during a high school field trip. I remember thinking that the build and the sturdy canvas and its forest green dye were exactly what I wanted, at exactly the price point I desired.

I don’t think I really understood the quotation screen printed on it: “painting is the art of protecting surfaces from the rain and exposing them to the critic.” 

This quotation was attributed to Ambrose Bierce. I’d never looked him up before.