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It was a real breakthrough moment and one of the things I was very, very aware of was that we were in this sort of moment where Laura Mulvey (British scholar, feminist film theorist)… For those of you who are interested in critical theory, feminist theory, Laura Mulvey had did her seminal text. …It was a very, very sort of intense period of working and trying to understand. I used myself primarily not because I was particularly interested in me, but because I was around and I could work whenever I wanted. The people that I used in the piece were people that I knew. Then she went on to explain how she made the series and why it was important: He was living next door and became then my subject in these photographs for the Kitchen Table Series.” - Carrie Mae Weems “This is the man, Don Washington sitting to my left, who introduced me to Nina Simone many, many years ago and, miraculously, was my neighbor when I moved to this tiny little town in New England. He was living next door and became then my subject in these photographs for the Kitchen Table Series.” She displayed the image in her presentation and said: “This is the man, Don Washington sitting to my left, who introduced me to Nina Simone many, many years ago and, miraculously, was my neighbor when I moved to this tiny little town in New England. She was invited to speak on the occasion of the installation of “Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series” at the Washington, D.C., museum (Sept. Weems identified her counterpart in the photograph during a lecture at the National Gallery of Art last year (see video below). His name is Don Washington, her neighbor at the time.

There is a bottle of liquor, half full, and a bowl of peanuts.

The photograph that was auctioned today features Weems sitting at the kitchen table with a man who is smoking.