September 29, 2008 4:46am This shot really grabs me. It seems like mid-Summer weather, and yet there she stands wearing a fur coat. I think of a coat like that as a trapping of urban life, but the setting seems anything but urban. Her attitude is downright heroic â like one of David's portraits of Napoleon, or perhaps Superman stripping his Clark Kent identity. The little clump of flowers in the lower left provide an extra punctuation mark, echoing the stark white of the coat, and emphasizing that we're not downtown anymore.
