2007-07-13

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2007-07-13 09:05 pm

letter from washington

Stephen dropped me off at the subway station, so I could go in to downtown DC while he was at the office. He made sure I had my lunch and a transit pass, and warned me, "Don't do anything I wouldn't do." That's such strange advice.

A day at the National Portrait Gallery )

perspective )

It feels weird for me to be discovering this kind of thing for the first time, because my school tried to teach me something about art when I was 17. But looking at pictures like this is different than looking at flickery slides. I can *see* them. And I don't think my teacher talked about faces.