Color(ed) Theory: Currency Exchange, Safe Passage

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A digital print color photograph of two clapboard houses painted a bright, golden yellow. The houses are situated side by side on a city street. Both houses are one and a half stories with peaked gable roofs. The house on the left is slightly smaller. It has the door on the left side, with a small wooden, uncovered porch in front and a small set of wooden stairs running to street level. There is a boarded up, originally two-paned window to the right of the first floor, a single small, empty window in the center of the second floor. The brown roof trim is the only element of the house that has not been painted yellow. The house to the right is larger and set higher off the ground with a covered, wooden front porch spanning the full width of the front.

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