The great painter gets the Xe Sands treatment in this week’s installment of “Going Public.”
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For the past week I’ve been completely consumed with my current narration project, The Art Forger, by Barbara Shapiro, a wonderful book that I am beyond thrilled to be voicing. Despite being a “method narrator,” it’s actually quite rare for a project to get so under my skin that I begin seeing things in a different manner, start doing research born purely from a hunger to know more about something in the book. But this one did. I found myself spending hours online pouring through Degas’ paintings, looking at photos of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and dare I admit it? Yes, actually enjoying some time in a museum.
No, the world did not end while you were grabbing some coffee…I just got smacked with a literary glove of culture…So when it came to this week’s piece, I wanted to do something inspired by this journey…but the poetry I found was not public domain. Nor were there any easily accessible, complete letters from Degas. Hrumph, said I. However, there are numerous quote from him, so I have pieced together a snippet of musings, taking a wee bit of liberty I supposed…
—originally posted at Going Public