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States. Then, as has happened with the entire Armstrong commission, it struck me that I would commission an abstract photographic triptych portrait of Elizabeth II���s life. There would be my connection to her. Of all the portraits depicting Her Majesty, I had never seen or heard of an abstraction, let alone a photographic triptych abstraction of her. In tandem with the three Olympic figures, each of a diver, runner and discus thrower, symbols of vitality and strength, the triptych of Her Majesty will be exhibited with them and with several other Hyland Armstrong commissions during the London Olympics. They depict the Queen as a child, in magisterial grace and in full maturity. Her life, like that of a great athlete, comprises devotion, steadfastness, a sense of duty to a cause, great physical stamina, perseverance, insightfulness and leadership. The image of Her Majesty as a young child presages her life to come, small pocketbook firmly placed at waist, front and center. However inanimate the object, it would be a sort of private talisman, a place for hands and arms. In this image, her figure is front and center, the sea of future life, a green, fertile field of expectation, stretching behind and to the sides. In the full magisterial grace portrait, the Queen���s crowned head occupies most of the image, a State image, that of Elizabeth Regina, familiar to stamps, to embassy walls, HYLAND