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                    Drunken Roman (14" x 20", oil on
                    cement slab with mosaic and pottery pieces) -
                    Spending day after day walking through the
                    Roman ruins in Carthage, Mary came to know well
                    the spirits of the Romans who lived
                    there.  She saw and painted this drunken
                    Roman like a ghost, just emerging from the
                    surface of a cement slab. 
                    
                      "You know the Greek statues were very classic
                      and very beautiful.  And then the Romans
                      began to put personalities into them and make
                      them look like certain people.  Special
                      people.  Portraits.  And this was
                      one of them."
                     
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