Aikshrees Kanduraja

And pretty soon they were all gathered around me and we were all talking to Joe Biden, you know, like the Washington Post, the AP, like the Bloomberg, HuffPost.

We're all talking, Fox News, Daily Caller.

We're all looking into the camera and talking to Joe Biden.

And he's just telling everybody how bomb my painting is.

I was like, that was awesome.

That was awesome.

This is the part of the story when Icarus, with wings cobbled together with wax and feathers, experiences the miracle of flight.

Hey, I can see my Minotaur from here.

For many mortals, this level of success is thrilling and enough.

But not for Pablo.

Pablo has a bigger goal.

He wants one of his paintings officially hung in the Capitol, approved by a committee and hung by an entity known as the architect of the Capitol, the only people allowed to drive a nail in the wall.

Pablo wants to be immortalized in these halls of power.

I have no legacy.

Like, you know what I mean?

And while no one might remember any story I write ever, right, the painting will be there for centuries.

Centuries, if it's on the wall.

Maybe you've been wondering this whole time, what do these paintings look like?

So to be totally honest, Pablo's improved a lot.

But he's doing work that looks like it's made by a talented art student, maybe a folk artist.