Did you ever wonder what was inside the Capitol building in DC where a mob of hundreds of Trumpazoids broke in and caused the death of 4 people? I did, and on a sketch trip at the monuments in the city, I drew some familiar edifices. The Capitol is essentially hollow. It's a big empty cylinder capped by a Michelangelo-style RomeDome, obsessively decorated with Classical motifs. This is what you can expect from architects, artists, and political figures all trained in the nineteenth century's educational base of Greek and Latin literature and art. I bet most of the Turnip Army had little or no idea what they were violating.
Black tech pen on yellowed old sketchbook page (40 years!), December 31, 1981.
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