Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 1/8/13: Badges of office: beret, brush and palette.

Jacob Lawrence, "Self-Portrait" (1977) — Jacob Lawrence, *Self-Portrait* (1977)

January 8, 2013:

Badges of office: beret, brush and palette. Medallion in buttonhole: Palmes académiques. Larger than life, larger than the tower, larger than the ship or the bridge or the unseen city.

Always within the Dreaming. Unreal perspective, he seems to float over the backdrop with his toes dragging against the street.

Saying: I am as important as any of this.