My ABSOLUTE FAVORITE painting!

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Christine Salm. You see, this girl took a trip across the ocean to a far away land called Spain. The year was 1999, and she was only 14 years old. The first stop in Spain was Barcelona, and as many students slept off the afternoon with the traditional 'siesta', she wandered through the Joan Miro Museum. She loved the painter and thought he was marvelous! As she climbed the stairs, she saw a "filler painting" in the corner. It was not an important one, but she appreciated it as she related to its many splotches and lines. It was called 'The Day'. It reminded her of her day with its stressful and not so stressful points, but with a sun to brighten everything in the end. She looked in the bookstore for a copy, but she couldn't find one. She asked in her broken Spanish and her brilliant English, but she received no reply. And...she left. She left Spain, and she was determined not to forget about her painting. She searched the internet, she searched through books, and she asked librarians and friends from all over. She couldn't find any record of her painting anywhere. She continued to talk about it over the years, but everyone started to think that maybe this painting was a figure of Christine's imagination. She was only 14, a child at best.

Later in September of 2004, Christine moved to Madrid, Spain. She learned Spanish and during the Summer of 2005, she took a bus to Barcelona in one last desperate attempt to find her painting. She could still picture the painting and knew what it looked like in her mind. Even after so many years, she probably could have vaguely drawn it! She went, and she was on a mission! When she arrived at the musuem, its smell was the same and so was its layout. So, she climbed the stairs, and there was that not-so-important painting that she absolutely loved. She hadn't forgotten, and it was as if the painting had waited for her return after all those years. She lowered the stairs and entered the bookstore ready to buy a copy of 'El Dia'. They didn't have any reprints. She asked the workers, she looked through the books, and she found nothing. Luckily, the keeper of the archives happened to notice Christine in her desperate search for a copy of the painting. It was only five books later that they found a publication of the painting in a book from the 1970's. Unfortunately, the image was divided between two pages.

Christine had the pages scanned and returned to Madrid. Her task was not done yet. She left the CD in a folder until one day when she would finally find a place that could edit it for her. In September of 2006, she found that place. The image was edited and it is the one you see above. She had it printed and framed. Most of all, this painting now holds its only history for one American girl who WILL NEVER and COULD NEVER forget it. May this painting never be forgotten and may it always hang in a deserving place, if only because it is the favorite painting of Christine Salm.