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“The house in the top center is our old home on South Walnut Street in Wooster, Ohio,” writes artist Susan Shie. “The scene is about a huge street renovation project going on in front of our house all summer. They dug a huge hole in front of our house. My body is in the kitchen sink, like we were in a sinkhole. There are little angels in the top corners, so I suppose those are guardian angels I’m calling in to cheer us up or help turn around a slump of hard times. My daughter was playing tennis that summer; the cat is Jimmy’s [her husband’s] Maine Coon cat. Jimmy looks like he is falling off of something. The owls are our patio owl lights; they represent home, wisdom, and protection. The Polynesian guy at the bottom right corner is a lamp I bought at a second-hand shop. I think the line of rumor mongers at the bottom is my expression of frustration to what was happening at the time with me getting a lot of publicity in the local newspapers. I just couldn’t believe some of the incorrect things that got written, and I took it all to heart. What really counts is that your friends and family like to see your work in the paper.”