In the Oakland museum I stood in front of the only work of mine which they own. Eleanor. Eleanor Roosevelt.

I painted her with a white background, thick slabs of paint, meant to suggest the White House. Painted from memory. The trip I took with my Mother and Father when I was about 15. Washington, DC. Remembered the feeling of power which pervades the city. Not the rattling energy of New York City. But the invisible daily decisions vicariously experienced.

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