I like everything that's old-fashioned. I seem to dwell back there. Washington is 74. It wasn't until mid-life that he decided to follow his lifelong passion art. As a boy growing up in Mullica Hill, Washington loved to draw but he came of age at a time when art was a luxury.
Black boys get jobs.
And so he did. For 35 years, Washington worked as a production supervisor for a chemical company. It paid the bills. But Washington, who loved to draw from the time he was a boy, never forgot. It never left me.