Family Portrait al la Hogarth, with Chlorox
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Fabulous family portrait, a gift by Tom, our son in law, who is an artist. Given to us on Christmas day 12/25/2020.
It enters the annals of our pandemic time for two reasons:
One is that it is COVID-19 that brought us closely together as an extended family in our house in Alford, Massachusetts.
The second reason is the explicit reference to the virus in the shape of a Chlorox bottle held by both Carol and Tom (which replaces the equally ghastly dead pheasant dangling from their hands in the original Hogarth).
Of note are ten-month old baby girl Renata, who by now is able to pull herself up to the height of the coffee table, and the cat Ghoti sitting atop the door, as Ghoti (the official name as it appears in the records of the vet, pronounced “Fish”) is wont to do. Hence my glance to the right in the picture is directed to the cat, not to a servant as in the original. I’m dressed as a judge (my father was a judge) and hold in my hand the ubiquitous (post-5 pm) glass of wine. My daughter, Renata’s mother Mariel, is seen on the far left, operating her Macbook in a sense of duty even during the sitting/standing for the family portrait.
Stretched out in the foreground like a game trophy is Daisy the dog, fixated as always on red-red ball-ball. Without taking anything away from the credit to Tom, I should say that Daisy is rendered most life-like among all.
Who did I forget? Crouched in the corner on the left is the other cat Ham, as always recluse and upstaged by his outgoing brother Ghoti.
Below is a famous paining of the Constitutional Convention. It seems — at least in style — we fit right in.
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Constitutional Convention
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