The cupola in the painting stands atop Westerly's decrepit Roger Williams Inn. I climbed the fire escape in 1990 to get a close-up, and painted its portrait sixteen years later.
It's more about the longing for faith than Faith itself. The lightning rod is aimed skyward, waiting to be struck, but the cupola exists in a world of sunlit surfaces and deep shadows.
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