Before she turned on the light, the splatter on the studio’s
rain-clattered skylight gave the room the appearance of
an aquarium.Jane’s quotations from art history were pinned everywhere,
wallpaper clipped from the pages of art magazines and
old postcards from Paris. Vermeer’s maid gazed
on Dora Maar. Picasso ogles a Lautrec dancing
to catch a sidelong glance from Paul Gauguin.
They made the small studioseem both crowded and vast.
