There is an overwhelming sense of awkwardness flooding my whole body when I hear this strong American accent in which Van Gogh is explained to a group of tourists in Hawaiian shirts. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is about to explode inside my head with a million colours of an Impressionist painting. It takes a while to realise that it is my problem and my problem only, because the things which are said do make perfect sense in that unintentionally profound American way.
Thursday, 14 November 2019
travelling notes (cxii)
There is an overwhelming sense of awkwardness flooding my whole body when I hear this strong American accent in which Van Gogh is explained to a group of tourists in Hawaiian shirts. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is about to explode inside my head with a million colours of an Impressionist painting. It takes a while to realise that it is my problem and my problem only, because the things which are said do make perfect sense in that unintentionally profound American way.
