She's a painter who is not afraid of color. It's not just the saturation of color, but the number of colors and the complexity of the color combinations. And she's not afraid of beauty, either.

I was familiar with preserved Civil War fields like Gettysburg, where there are national parks and monuments all over the place. They're places that are hallowed and sacred and interpreted with text and park rangers. The whole mechanics of history is brought to bear on these places.