Layer After Layer of Loving Devotion

Layer After Layer of Loving Devotion

Harold Feinstein, Child’s Back in Mother’s Arms / Putney Vermont, 1974. Courtesy ICP. My mother tells a story about wheeling me around in a supermarket shopping cart as a toddler, wearing so many tops and T-shirts simultaneously that my arms stuck straight out like a snowman. She had let me choose my clothes, and whenever she tells the story, her face beams with pride. I imagine she tells it to illustrate how, even as a baby, I had strong opinio…