February 12, 1994

For reasons I no longer remember, I was taking a trip out to the Italian store in Herrin. Painting grad Brian Gibson handed me all the money he had in his wallet and asked me to convert it to olives. The store would put them in a cardboard serving dish and wrap it all with butcher paper. This is what I brought back to Brian, 1.5 pounds of kalamata olives. He ate most of them on the spot.