two portraits

washington, DC and new york, NY, mid-june 2022

(not their real names)

I was in a farm-to-table restaurant in Northern Virginia, at a meeting of a sort of unofficial, bipartisan think tank. We were brought together to discuss solutions to the deluge of disinformation. A short Metro ride away, in Washington, DC, the January 6th committee hearings were underway.

There’s a certain first impression of perf…