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LA CASA EN CROCKETT;

...The only details of the inside of house where Luke and I lived that I remember now are those which I drew. Like the staircase which you saw when you opened the door. A wooden staircase with a wooden bannister. The staircase was central to the house, with the kitchen to the left and the living room to the right. It took me a long time to draw it because I spent hours rendering the wood grain in every stair.
It was a small house, belonging to a woman who had gone to Galveston too be with her daughter who was having a baby without her husband. (sent overseas) Sitting on her couch after Luke had left, I pictured our landlady and her pregnant daughter in a rented furnished house -- vacated by someone else whose husband too had shipped out in a wartime chain of dislocation....

 

Never set up a studio in Crockett although Luke urged me to do so. Felt paralyzed. The inescapable reminders of war. Headlines. Uniforms. Comings and goings. Orchestrated by some unseen hand in Washington.
In the eight months which we spent there, I filled one sketchbook with minutely detailed drawings. Very different from the way that my work developed although in retrospect in each drawing one object dominated the picture in the way that the women do now