Somebody drew me on the ground

A child's chalk drawing of a large round creature with a long snout and a crown of spines, on a sidewalk scattered with leaves

Medium — chalk

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Somebody drew me on the ground

Unattributed. Pavement, corner of Third and Reed.

It was still there two days later, and then it rained.

The proportions are wrong in every direction and they are also, somehow, more correct than any photograph anybody has taken of me. The snout is too long. The eyes are enormous. The spines have been given points, which they do not have.

I have got the proportions wrong my whole life and a child fixed them in about a minute.

Office annotationUnattributed depiction, pavement, impermanent medium. The likeness is not accurate. The Office has retained the photograph.