The Professor As Artist Part 2

After finding the Professor hiding out in his garden shed pretending to look for an esoteric barometer, I insisted that we return to discussion of the artistic side of his illustrious career. The Professor is known for his loquacity on most subjects but oddly silent on both his artistic endeavours and his idiosyncratic stint as a Lasker Morris adjudicator. 

During his time as visiting lecturer at the Odstone College of Fine Arts and Herb Strewing, the Professor created a memorable, site-specific work at Barton in the Beans. The work entitled “Intimation Wall” required that a specific wall should be observed for an entire week. The Professor pointed at the chosen wall early on the Monday morning before wandering off somewhere for the remainder of the week. The observers were told to expect a “precipitous manifestation” during the ensuing days.

People came from far and wide to play their part in the experience and, at the end of the week, absolutely nothing had happened. The Shackerstone Gazette described it as a “triumphant metaphor for something or other” and everyone went away both happy and a little wiser. (With the exception of local builder Arthur Quank, who declared that the wall had “skimpy pointing”).

The Professor left the area immediately after this event to take up a position as Honorary Toastmaster and Biscuit Tester at Garton-on-the-Wolds College for Nonpartisan Cricket Stump Makers. 

But why depart so precipitously? The Professor solemnly removed his boater and explained: "I've never been one for accurate map reading. I may have pointed at the wrong wall.”