Go back on the day we were shooting a place called Nico's Pier 38. We go with him over to see the fish auction. We get a really good crowd, a really loud crowd that loves the spectacle. It goes over to our place here on our property. We get people pouring over and it's a really beautiful place. In this town, this is a wonderful town.
On the pier:
It's a great pier. It's open all the time — except the time of the week. I mean there is no piers.
I present to you the work of another painter of fish plates. Y’know how you use ‘scare quotes’ for various purposes, including indicating that you’re not actually sure about The Thing?
Well, this guy was so bad at whatever he was painting that we call him…
The ‘tadpole’ painter:
Here’s another example:
This one was sold as part of the Graham Geddes collection at Bonham’s auction house in 2008 for £2,040.
They describe it as ‘three fish including a wrasse with dorsal spines, an angler-fish, the rounded body with multiple black dots, two large round eyes with pupils, an open mouth with teeth bared, and a ray with pointed face, the body with multiple black dots’.
Which like… bold fucking move missing out the fact that they have legs. Though I can’t say I envy whoever had to write the description.