Director 2: Do you think anywhere else will be interested? I mean, they're only reproductions, you know ... they were made after He died.
D1: Ok, so He didn’t make them Himself, big whoop. He never liked the idea anyway. Frankly all this stuff about prints needing to be overseen by the artists or signed on the sheet is just professional nitpicking. What we need is some big-picture-thinking. How about stretching out even beyond Sydney. Is there anything like that?
D2: There's Wellington in New Zealand.
D1: You're kidding me?
D2: Absolutely not. Think about it. “Dr Seuss Galleries only in the USA, Australia and NZ".
D1: Put that way I'm not so sure ... still, as the great Dr Seuss, God bless Him, would say “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
D2: So ... we’ll do it?
D1: Why the hell not. But it’ll need a lot of publicity to kick it off. And that means a big time NZ art celebrity to open it. Anyone spring to mind?
D2: Sally Ridge for sure, I checked her out on the Internet last week.
D1: Last week? … probably left it too late. How about some big shot art museum person?
D2: Yeah, I've got one of them too, the CEO of Te Papa. It's the national museum of New Zealand.
D2: The CEO of Te Papa. Open a Dr Seuss reproductions gallery! Give me a break. He’d never do it. Not in a thousand years.
But he did.
