New sign painting on a scrap piece of wood. "Forty Two*", 22.5 x 24", acrylic paint on 1/4" thick plywood.
42 is the famously calculated 'Answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything' via The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
The answer was determined by an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought after 7.5 million years of computation, though the actual corresponding question remains unknown. When the computer finally revealed the number, it explained that knowing the meaning of the answer requires knowing the actual question. Because Depp Thought didn't know the question itself, it had to design an even larger and more complex computer, which turned out to be the Earth to calculate the ultimate question of life.
I asked my super-computer AI what the answer to the ultimate question was and it too said that it was 42 (but AI only took one second to answer so I'm not so sure I believe it)
I don't know if it's my age but I can't help but feel that I'm running out of time. Yet I prefer to stay up all night painting things that don't necessarily mean anything... I think. This painting that I made is a nice looking number, it's dressed well, straight lines, aesthetically pleasing... but it's still just paint on wood. If someone found it would they be dumbstruck by its significance or would they think it was just a souvenir from Medieval Times?
