I Wish I Knew My Neighbor Better

I WISH I KNEW MY NEIGHBOR BETTER
The late Ivory L. Brown, the subject of I Wish I Knew My Neighbor Better, was a resident in the artist’s neighborhood. Like most of her work, it is based on found material. Rosen discovered his name by chance in her telephone directory (a relic of the past), but she didn’t know him. If she did, she might know what his middle initial “L” stood for. Instead she had to speculate, painting his name twice in its remarkable self-designated colors, ivory and brown, and imagining that in the context of his multicolored first and last names, his middle initial L might have stood for lime green or lavender/lilac.