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Day Ten: Don't Paint What You Don't See
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Day Ten: Don't Paint What You Don't See

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Jan 07, 2022
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Joan Mitchell in her Vétheuil studio, 1983. Photograph by Robert Freson, Joan Mitchell Foundation Archives. © Joan Mitchell Foundation.

(I forgot to post this last night, so it’s coming to you now for Day Ten. My apologies.)

I’ve been thinking a lot the past few days about the unreliability of memory, and of storytelling and retelling generally. The subje…

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