[ID: A comic composed of four square panels per page titled "To The Substitute Art Teacher." It starts with offscreen hands pointing to a photo of a full mesh grocery bag and is captioned, "You were young and optimistic, and you were pointing to a photo of a shopping bag, telling us to notice the texture and colours, saying, 'Isn't that beautiful?'"
The view zooms out to show a class full of students watching the substitute point to the board. "But we were a bunch of 13 year-olds, and all we could do was laugh, because all we saw was a shopping bag--"
A moth. "-- something that was not on the list of things--" An orange sunset. "-- that were allowed to be described as 'beautiful,'" A celebrity couple on the red carpet "Not that any of us--" Blooming roses. "-- would use a word like 'beautiful' anyway."
A view of two people at a bus stop. "Some years later, I was waiting at a bus stop and, in my boredom, found myself looking at the shopping bag--" The sitting person looks at the one standing and holding a mesh shopping bag. "-- And I noticed the texture of the bag, the pattern of the string made by the weight of what it held. and the colour combinations of the items inside." A repeat of the classroom panels. "And I remembered you in the classroom, saying 'Isn't that beautiful?'"
More close-ups of the shopping bag. "And I realised that this is what you must have been trying to teach us, that images of beauty are all aroujnd us, if you pay close attention." Shots of a laundromat, a bus stop, a line at the convenience store, a bus stop, all featuring the narrator. "And since then, whenever I'm waiting, I try to look out for these bits of beauty, and some days, when I'm not distracted, it seems, everywhere I look, I can't help thinking--"
Clothes spinning in a washing machine. "'That's beautiful.'" Powerlines reflected in small puddles on the sidewalk. "'That's beautiful.'" A fan blowing streamers. "'That's beautiful.'" A tree casting shadows onto a brick wall. "'That's beautiful.'" End ID]
