A reader who may not know much about art but knows what he likes:

“Derb—I’m doing some home improvements and my house is afflicted with some

hideous, ancient wallpaper that refuses to come off. I’d like to volunteer

it as a project for that NY conceptual artist who likes to gnaw on walls.

She probably won’t have much more success than my scraping efforts but she

could use that concept, calling it a comment on the futility of postmodern

life; a scathing rebuttal of the American dream or some such nonsense. As

for me, I’d just enjoy seeing a goofy lefty chick chewing on my walls.”