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I've had a desire to paint Sonia Sotomayor's portrait for over 2 years. The yellow background, painted onto the canvas, was completed sometime ago. The canvas was intended for the Cary Grant portrait but was scrapped and sat idly in my studio. The video begins with, me imagining, what the early indigenous Taino chants of Puerto Rico would have sounded like. From the early chants, to Sotomayor's scaling up to the upper echelons of the American judicial system, Peter, Paul and Mary's version of "If I had a hammer" fits perfectly into the video of a supreme court justice who has dealt out rulings pertaining to justice, freedom and love. (Lyrics) Hammer out danger, hammer out warning hammer of justice, bell of freedom, a song about love between brothers and sisters... I work on a commissioned basis and will gladly paint portraits from a photograph. Canvas size will be 22 in. x 28 in. This size is an attention grabber in any room. The medium...