HOTEL EDEN
Watercolor Winslow Homer, Red Shirt, Homosassa, Florida (1904)
Those palm trees Winslow Homer painted, like women tossing their blue, wild hair just after a shampoo. On that paper it is always wet, everything is clean and misty, the result of a tropical rain. Or, no— the metaphor should be made of paper, how blue seeps into green, colors too transparent for forgiveness and so the foliage blurs. The accident coincides with the fisherman’s boat. The smears muddy the turquoise sky and the painter must hurry to blot the scene and quit, hang it like laundry,
something caught there with just the time he had before the colors set and the water dried.
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