Day Four: Tuesday: The drawing at the Ancona Market

The fresh start to the day and our fancy phones direct us through GPS magic to the parking lot of a supermarket. It is pouring out.  We see two rouge shopping carts, with no human motor power, working their way across the mostly empty lot... zeroing in on one of the few cars that has arrived before us.  We figure the car is in God's hands now and grab our box of mixed tapes and make a quick dash to the front door of the Ancona market.  As far as supermarkets go, this one immediately appealed to our sensibilities... landing in that super sweet spot between the professional organic business mentality of Whole Foods with the festive color schemes of a good Trader Joe's mixed in with a heavy dose of the genuine authenticity of a well supplied local co-op.  Being a place dedicated to good signage, there were very little walls that had not been completely considered and thusly covered with some piece of information.  The one grand exception to this was a white tile surface above where the fresh vegetables are washed.  This clean, glistening surface above the sinks suited an aquatic theme and the clean sightline from the store's entrance on the opposite side of the building called out for a singular large object.  The proportions of the walls, and the proximity of organic bananas inspired only one thing - a great white shark.  For good measure, we added a scuba diver as a gentle reminder to how terrifyingly triumphant these Hummers of the ocean are.  Our two hours drawing included an unusually high mix of shark related trivia and we bantered through so much frivolous information that we would have made a 3rd grader, who is going through a shark phase, blush.  Did you know that the great white is the only shark that will go and poke its head out of the water?  Did you know that the average speed of the great white (in the water, not driving) is 2 m.p.h - but they will swim from California across the entire Pacific to Australia or India.  That makes them possibly the most patient animal in the world.  

But, for an entire species, the wholly mammoth probably takes it for patience for the awesome task of walking from Africa, to Europe, through Siberia, into the Americas and making it as far as Florida and Mexico.  If I remember correctly, this journey took well over a million years.  Just remember next time you get behind someone on the highway that is moving "too slow" for your liking... just think of our friends the mammoth and the great white - the kings of getting there.  Yes, we acknowledge that these are one of the few animals that don't wear wrist watches, but still we have to respect their efforts.