I was meeting a friend for dinner near the Chicago Institute of Art during the last week of March. I had thirty minutes to employ before we met, so I decided to walk around the area. It had been raining, but now that had stopped, a fantastic, wet evening descended. There were personal sights from past visits to State Street: public landmarks and giant storefronts on Michigan Avenue. I meandered and went to see the Picasso sculpture on Dearborn and Washington. Sitting down near the street, I found it quiet with nobody around, which was odd for such a busy urban area. The sculpture itself was wet and was still dripping with rain. Puddles around the sculpture prompted me to think of the Weeping Woman series, a collection of paintings by Picasso that depicts a woman in deep sorrow or agony (From abuse?). As I rose to stand, I thought of the sculpture’s controversy. Picasso, when pressed, mentioned in passing that it was his favorite Afghan hound that inspired the work; some speculated it was a portrait of a baboon (his favorite subject at the time), and others said it was inspired by Jacqueline or Lydia Corbett, one of his models, from the 1950s. Picasso never definitively said, but today I thought – it’s him; he was thinking of his sister, Conchita.