The call came on a Thursday. I was in the studio — not working, not painting, not doing any of the things the studio was for. I was sitting on the stool by the window with the cloth still over the eleventh version and the drawer still closed and the notebook still on the shelf and I was doing nothing, which was the thing I had been doing most of for the past week, the practice of not-working that had become a form of working, the way you can be working on a problem by not-working on it, the way...
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Next in Chapter 21: Kiryu chooses a new small canvas — and marks it with Naples yellow for the first time.
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