All sorts of people were coming and going then, and Joshua grumbled that the group was getting too large, too slipshod, that maybe we should have a nominating committee and screen and interview potential membersan idea that the rest of the 3AC rebuffed as elitist. Seeing Mirielle across the living room, I was struck first by how elegantly she was dressed. A fitted black blouse, gray twill pencil skirt. She was tall and thin. She wore no makeupshe didnt have to. Her hair was straight and soft and parted in the middle, falling to her shoulders, where it rested in a layer of subdued curls. You like that? Joshua said to me. I didnt really have a chance to speak to her, though, until a few weeks later, at Leon Lee and Cindy Wongs wedding in early November. The couple had been together since college, both of them painters with similar approaches, Leon mimicking the techniques of eighteenth-century Korean genre painters to make contemporary portraits on scrolls, Cindy adopting Chinese watercolor and brush schemes to produce modern still lifes on rice paper.
