“I am going to paint with a baseball bat.” “OK.” “I am going to paint with baseballs.” “OK.” “I need a T-ball set.” “Um, what?” Charlie, my 29-year old son who is a working abstract artist, was contacted this past winter to paint a triptych for the Texas Rangers’ new home at Globe Life Field.
Right away he had a plan: a baseball bat, baseballs, a kids T-ball set with softballs and lots of red, white and blue paint.
While the baseball bat and baseballs didn’t concern me, the idea of a T-ball set made me nervous. Envisioning Charlie whacking baseballs at delicate and expensive art canvases, not to mention the mess involved with paint-covered balls flying all around his studio, was totally disconcerting, to say the least.
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