Staring at a blank canvas, you may imagine many things, but not as much as a girl named Georgia! Staring at some animal bones to paint, she looks back at the canvas. It’s not blank anymore.

What does she see? A sun-bleached animal skull? Some flowers? Maybe an angry mule deer skull and some flowers floating in the sky over a fire red desert? She could look at nature and see stuff you just wouldn’t believe! I looked at the canvas and saw opportunity. This forgery of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Mule Deer Skull and Flowers was good enough to fool art experts and sell at auction for $2.1 million. But that doesn’t happen for another 30 years or so. Don’t tell anybody, ok?

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