Greetings comrades

i was stunned.  who put this masterpiece here?  how did they do it in a meager one-hour class time?  where was batman’s lower half?

and, most intensely, would they mind if i added to the drawing?

throwing caution (and attention to class) to the wind, i gave batman a lower half.

it may not have been the lower half they were expecting.  nevertheless, batmantaur was born.

i don’t remember what the artist’s response was, but the next class day he had written the beginnings of a chat on the desk.  i don’t even remember his name, but we had something special for the rest of that semester.  an understanding, an appreciation, a kinship perhaps.

so what became of batmantaur?  it remained in that room throughout most of the semester, though i think i remember the desk getting moved around a few times.  eventually, i came in one day to find the desk half-dismantled, as though someone had tried to remove the desktop.  about a week later, whoever it was actually did succeed in stealing it.  i never saw batmantaur again.

and thus, he became a legend.  if i didn’t have photos of him, i myself probably wouldn’t even believe that he had existed.

his spirit lived on in the future collaborative works of flashtaur and captain americataur.

They’ve been together for 6000 years 😭💖

Detailed Works on Seashells by Gregory Halili

Gregory Raymond Halili born in the Philippines in 1975, carves and paints mother-of-pearl shells. Halili received his B.F.A. from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His work focuses on the art of miniatures with interest in the notion and idea of memory, life, death, and cycle. The artist is represented by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in NYC. Follow him on Facebook. 

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