Bowling Ball Tapestries
Description: In a whimsical depiction, a spoon with animated limbs is seen carrying a bowling ball bag, informing a discontented bowl with a face that it's off to bowl, the bowl visibly vexed by the spoon's bowling plans, encapsulating a humorous scenario of inanimate objects with personalities and conflicting intentions.
Description: The Dude is mostly inspired by Jeff Dowd, an American film producer and political activist the Coen brothers met while they were trying to find distribution for their first feature, Blood Simple. Dowd had been a member of the Seattle Seven, liked to drink white Russians, and was known as "The Dude". The Dude was also partly based on a friend of the Coen brothers, Peter Exline, a Vietnam War veteran who reportedly lived in a dump of an apartment and was proud of a little rug that "tied the room together".
