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!["Archer Daniels Midland Elevator" oil on canvas
----- [from the Smithsonian American Art Museum] -----
Cars and trains, industry and agriculture, trees and smokestacks meet in this busy image of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Local painter Arnold Klagstad gently guided the viewer's eye into the painting along a curving stretch of road with a car and two pedestrians to lead the way past a brick house, trees, and green lawns. Two white railroad crossing signs signal an abrupt transition to the confusing complex of commercial structures crowded along the railroad tracks.
Among the many buildings is the Harris Machinery Company at the far right, announced by a bold black and white sign, while a towering Archer Daniels Midland grain elevator dominates the view. The density of businesses may suggest a thriving economy, but in fact drought and low farm prices made for hard times in 1930s Minnesota.
The juxtapositions of greenery with steel, and agricultural structures with manufacturing signal the tensions among farmers, business owners, and unions that led to violent confrontations in the streets of Minneapolis in 1934.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ewb37o2ftablnrgx3ma45l3b/bafkreifn5rphxlxlv73sg7sl6yhed5kuundbu4sf247klmzs2dxuvqtobq)
![[Achewood] Philippe losing his absolute shit at the "Mickey Mouse pancakes" prepared by Téodor](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ewb37o2ftablnrgx3ma45l3b/bafkreiessk7yi3wdefm7je2gvuckvbjjfloqlmoxeob5khqnncdw6buju4)
!["Ghost Plate with Mickey Mouse Ears" glazed earthenware
----- [from the Smithsonian American Art Museum] -----
Ghost Plate with Mickey Mouse Ears is Jim Melchert’s favorite piece from a series of works created in 1964.
He was inspired by a line from Ingmar Bergman’s film The Silence that reads, “One must tread carefully among the ghosts in your past.” Melchert decorated the plates and jars of this series with masks and used them to work through issues from his past.
The ghost in this piece wears a Mickey Mouse hat.
This is a playful image, but is also meant to evoke the humiliation of a child wearing a dunce cap.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ewb37o2ftablnrgx3ma45l3b/bafkreigabedwxmszkhv5t3w44abvwtbvyadxu4lb546pd7kisobxeolnma)
