Why I Bought A 750 Square Foot Bird Mural At A Busy Downtown Subway Station

So, uh... Last year I bought a 750 square foot painting. 10’ tall, 75’ long, on a lonnnng strip of curved concrete outside a busy downtown subway station. Few months earlier I was walking on a freezing night with my friend ​Michael Bungay Stanier​ when we stumbled on a stunning spraypainted Hooded Merganser. I was shook! I noticed a small word in the corner—Sweetman—and then googled “sweetman…