Outside - Keana Poindexter

Paint on canvas, colored pencil on watercolor paper
12" x 16"
 
The Way It Works
By Skipper Hammond
 
Almost 2:00 pm. Almost ready. Two cans of beets. One more box of rice. A bag of chips. All ready.
The door opens and the young white woman with her ten-year-old enters. First in line. The nice ten-year-old smiles and says, “Thank you.” The mother touches her shoulder. The nice ten-year-old says, “ma’am.”