Derrick Austin (@paradiselaust.bsky.social)

"Monet’s famous waterlilies were made during the war, and more people should know that. This is what I wanted to say, but couldn’t find the words. Look and you can see beneath the surface of the water: that dread, that waiting. Would it be destroyed, the garden in Normandy, like so many others?"

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The Texture of Wartime Monet Going Through Old Notebooks Part 28: "Madame, you are standing too close to the paintings." https://www.awritersnotebook.org/p/the-texture-of-wartime-monet