FUN FACT: The well-known work "Arthur," by John Johns Johnso, was not thought of as art until trowels became commonly recognized as an acceptable art medium. ("Arthur" is a piece composed of a trowel, center stage, lights up for three seconds, down for twelve hours. Audience is locked in building, armed priests guard all exits, sliced melon distributed constantly throughout the audience by tuxedoed men carrying silver platters heaped with ridiculous amounts of melon.) Johnso reported in various interviews that he did not even originally intend for the trowel to become an art piece. "I just found this old trowel and started absorbing bits of it into my bloodstream through my pores," he said unenthusiastically. "Before I knew it, my body had processed the entire trowel, and over the next few weeks my body gradually rejected all of the trowel pieces. Once I had collected all of them and arranged them back into the shape of a trowel, the rest of the production just sort of wrote itself. It was really just a matter of elementary trowel logic."
