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...... Does the watchful image suggest that Rice is the presidents all-seeing, but nonjudgmental eyes and ears, with no body or identity of her own, other than her eyes? Is her ability to be a gazer, but not an informed and active participant as an advisor, the reason for the works portrayal of Rice as a series of eyes, a spy rather than a fully-fledged individual? Significantly, there is no mouth, the body part one might first associate with someone who is supposed to provide counsel
It is hard to forget that Rice is not simply a Secretary of State enforcing an unpopular policy, but also an African-American woman despite her marked physical absence in the painting. The lack of her physical presence and the very light, hazy tones of the work make no reference to her race, in fact, they seem to explicitly ignore her race as well as the race of the Iraqi people. Does this mean that her race is irrelevant to what she does, or that she has somehow sacrificed her race, and let it go up in smoke, like smoke from a plane? The image, although politicized, is not racialized or nationalized in any fashion......

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