Artist’s Dollar General painting prompts viral conversation on rural socioeconomics

Artist’s Dollar General painting prompts viral conversation on rural socioeconomics

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. In Brejenn Allen’s painting, a store sits in a field surrounded by rows of crops. The painting’s title, “Dolla Gentral” is displayed on a distinctive yellow sign. In the expansive sky above the store in the painting, some of the clouds are made up of Dollar General receipts, twisted up and painted over.  “The work is doing two things. It’s honoring my memories and…