Artists Take Note: Wyoming Isn’t Just A Square

Last week I was sitting in a restaurant in Cheyenne, eating, and trying to figure out what the heck that artwork on the wall was supposed to be.

The painting in the photo above is not the one that I was looking at, but it does look almost just like it.

What I was looking at, framed in a square was a painting of a square.

Below the painting of the square was the number 1890.

Suddenly it hit me.

1890 was the year that Wyoming became a state

The painting was a silhouette of Wyoming!

Well, that was an easy piece of art to produce.

Most other paintings in Wyoming are of mountains, cowboy scenes, and Indian culture- maybe a bison or elk.

There is a place online where you can go to get a mirror in the shape of your home state.

That's interesting when you want a mirror shaped like the Hawaiian Islands or Florida.

If you think about it, you don't have to shop anyplace special to get a bathroom mirror shaped like Wyoming.

There is actually a famous painting of a square. NOT KIDDING.

But this "artist" was not thinking about Wyoming.

You can find sculptures that are nothing more than a square stone.

Not sure what the point of that is.

If you look at a highway sign of most other states you'll find their silhouettes more interesting. Wyoming should not even bother on its highway signs.

Looking once again at the square painting of Wyoming in the restaurant, I realized that the "artist" had it wrong.

Wyoming is not a perfect square.

Due to the curvature of the Earth Wyoming is shorter at the top than it is at the bottom.

Maybe that painting should be returned for a refund.