The Work Beneath the Day
What interests me here is the floor. It appears solid and unremarkable from above, while the drawing allows us to see everything holding it up. A successful working day often rests on arrangements that disappear from the account of success.
Meals arrive, clean clothes are found, children are collected, appointments are remembered. These things require somebody's time even when they do not receive a wage. Recognising that support does not diminish the achievement upstairs. It makes the description of the achievement more honest. Independence can be a useful word, but I distrust it when it becomes a way of forgetting the people whose work has made our freedom possible.