Lisa sighed out of boredom as she scrolled through Instagram. It was midnight and she was watching over the security cameras at the local clothing store.

“What better way to spend a Thursday evening” she mumbled to no one.

She had taken up this job to help pay the bills while she studied photography at college. She kept switching between looking at Instagram and Pinterest looking for ideas for her next project. The professor had assigned a particularly interesting project this time around. She had to recreate famous paintings using inanimate objects. The project was due Saturday but she still had no idea where to even start. Out of the corner of her eye she saw something move in the camera.

“For God’s sake not again” she said in frustration.

Lisa got up from her chair and made her way over to the women’s section where she picked up a mannequin that had fallen over.

“You would think they’d just bolt these to the ground, but that would be too easy” she said amusingly to herself.

This was the only slightly interesting part of her job, watching the various mannequins on the cameras guessing which one would fall first. All of them had their sort of own personalities. You had the athletic ones in the sports wear while you had the more flashy ones by the swimsuit section. As she was thinking about this a thought stuck her for her project. She quickly looked at where the camera was and positioned the mannequin with its hand raised in the air. She took off the shirt the mannequin had on and made her way over to the athletic section. She found the one that looked like it was shooting a basketball and moved it over to the closet camera. She did this to every section picking, moving and framing each of the mannequins in view of the cameras and when she came back to her office, she smiled with glee. All the mannequins were positioned so it looked like a re-creation of the famous French Revolution painting “The Liberty Leading The People” she pulled her camera out from her bag and took a couple of shots of her creation.

“Looks like I’m right on schedule this time” she said as she poured her eyes over the shots she took.

She had struck gold with this new found method of re-creation. The rest of her shift, she kept moving, rearranging, swapping clothes and placing the various mannequins in ways that would help her finish her project. When the morning came her had taken photos of “The Night Watch,” “Primavera,” “The Last Supper,” and “American Gothic.” When her boss came in she was putting back all the mannequins much to his surprise.

“What the hell is going on here” he confusingly asks.

“Oh just a little painting” Lisa says with a wide grin on her face.