Megan Garber introduces the art of blackboards discovered by the Spanish artist, Alejandro Guijarro. Guijarro traveled around many universities, such as "the University of Oxford, UC Berkeley, Stanford, CERN, Cambridge, and the Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular." He visited the quantum mechanics labs and used a large format camera to capture the beauty of the chalk markings left on the boards, just as they were found. Guijarro explained the art to be functioning as suggestions, not "documents holding an objective truth," and wished to display "the space of a flat surface and of a given frame" that he described as the blackboards' "attempt to portray." Garber quotes the artist's remark that "they are arbitrary moments in the restless life of an object in constant motion."
Garber's audience are those readers who appreciate art, especially the beauty found in the scenery of everyday life. Garber talks about the history of blackboards as an introduction of her article. This great invention that facilitated the work of past teachers and which inspired today's extremely efficient tools like "dry-erase whiteboards and write-on wall paint" is explained in the beginning to introduce the topic. She also mentions that blackboards are not so frequently used anymore because of the new types of boards and at the same time, implies that beauty and art can be found in areas that people forget about and abandon for the new things.
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