Jacob Lawrence, "The Apartment" (1943)
Jacob Lawrence, The Apartment (1943)

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July 8, 2006:

Oleander bushes.

Kitchen dishes stacked atop toxic anti-bug shelf paper.

Cigarette smoke, cigarette smoke, cigarette smoke, cigarette smoke.

Metaphors: representations of a deeper toxicity. The parent's spiritual death; her struggle to drag her child into the same oblivion.

Poison House.


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