Ariock Says:

hmrpita and I have been talking about this since the task became available. How do you do this? Where can you do this?

I mean, under some definitions, this would be vandalism. Or some other legal term that could result in visits from the authorities, fines, reparations, threats of escalating violence, or taffy pulls gone horribly horribly wrong. And I'd rather not play that game.

So, the target had to be somewhere safe. It had to be somewhere that we could complete the work at as leisurely a pace as we needed. Taking a page from the original site itself, it seemed obvious that the ideal location was an hotel room.

This is where I came in. My family has been making trips up for weeks to help out my brother-in-law while my sister is out of the country. This weekend, I offered to get them an hotel. While they were at my sister's house, I used my key and hmrpita and I went to work.

I will let her talk about her inspiration and what we did.

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Hi, this is me, hmrpita (Her Most Royal Pain In The Ass).

My inspiration, as is made clear in the first photo, was Yoko Ono's art installation. I went to see her retrospective at SFMOMA a few years ago and was disappointed that I didn't get to climb the ladder to look at the yes through a magnifying glass, but, alas, THE MAN was having none of it. Stupid THE MAN. We hate THE MAN. But that's neither here nor there.

I wanted to write "yes" underneath something on a ceiling and the first plausible idea that popped into my wee brain was a smoke detector. The "yes" made me think of "NO," which made me think of "What are you asking me for?" So, we had to find two more items. And we did. And the rest is HISTORY.
HISTORY I TELL YOU!

Ariock had the idea to draw Sutro Tower on the last one, which was a fine idea, in and of itself, but he made the grave error of entrusting me to draw it. I know he is still kicking himself, since he would have done a much better job of rendering it than I did. Luckily, I have my Artistic License RIGHT HERE, so I am well within the legal boundaries of, um, what I did there. Also, in my weak defense, it was difficult to write, let alone draw, on that weird wallpaper. Oh, wait, I don't NEED a defense.
*pats Artistic License*