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Jeremy Green “House Guests” 1/2/2020

The British sailed into my hometown during the War of 1812 and paid a visit to Sion Hill, my boyhood home. At the time, the man of the house was at sea, fighting them somewhere. Since then most visitors to the house have been friends who were invited; and some notables were asked to sign the “guestbook” as it were, which is a plaster wall in a small corner room on the second floor. The earliest inscription I can discern on the wall is dated 1814. To me this was always “the sewing room” where my mother did her thing. I shot this when I was most recently there last September, and you can just discern the color of the trees and sky reflected on the plaster from an outside window. This image harkens to the vision and subjects of Andrew Wyeth, whose home was not far away.