Today I’m going to talk about something surprising that happened to me today. I work in the Office of the Mayor is Los Angeles City Hall, and at work one of my supervisors told me to help her return art pieces back to the artist. The art pieces were either valuable sculptures, or amazing paintings. My supervisor Carmen Duran is retiring tomorrow is her last day at work, and I am going to miss her so much, she has been the best boss I’ve ever had. She is in charge of the Mayor’s Art exhibit locate here in City Hall. Since she is leaving, she must return the art pieces back to their owners, these artist are very well recognize and I’m pretty sure most of you have herd of at least one of the artists we were contacting. We had artwork from artists such as Patssi Valdez, Sylvia Moss, Stephen Coleman, Pamela Davis, Pablo Cristi, Frederick Booker, Bill Rangel, and many more. I was in charge of contacting a total of 53 artists and make an appointment as to when they are available to either come pick up their art piece or we would go drop I it off to them personally. Each art piece is worth between $600 to $4,000. We went to Bill (William) Rangel’s house to drop his 6 art pieces off, he is one of the artists who is extremely talented and owns art that is valued at $1,200 for each art pieces. I was expecting for him to have an extraordinary big house, but to my surprise his house is nothing bigger than mine. He lives in a single apartment, very clean house and also very simple. This is nothing of what I expected, this thought me that big things can come out of simple, ordinary people and to definitely not judge a book by its cover, here are some art pieces from Patssi Valdez and Bill Rangel. =]
I think that's good that you work for the mayor. I wish I could work for the mayor. It's surprising that art is worth that much. I would've never believed that something so small is worth that much.It's nice that the moral,"Don't judge a book by its cover," actually came in handy for once. I actually did recognize one of the artists and that's such an awesome job to do.
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