"Domino Players," by Horace Pippin
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — I wrote "Domino Players, 1943" after studying Horace Pippin's celebrated painting, exhibited by the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. This "memory painting" depicts Pippin's childhood in Goshen, New York. A child sits at a kitchen table watching two women play dominoes while an older woman sits piecing her quilt. As I studied the painting, I thought about the wounded World War I veteran poignantly looking back and trying to paint his childhood and the security of home. His painting evolves into an act of recovery and restoration. I also imagined the three women in the painting as Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos - the Greek fates. They hold the thread to the child's life and to the life of the artist and veteran.
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