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1:07:02
You better take it, Dad...
1:07:03
...because we're gonna sneak it
in your food if you don't.

1:07:44
William Gibbs' first painting...
1:07:46
... was 20 inches high
and 41 feet wide.

1:07:51
Though unsigned, the value of
that painting is now recklessly high.

1:07:56
Not just because of the sheer
volume of ocean and sky...

1:08:00
... the "disturbing depths of an ocean,"
as one respected critic has put it...

1:08:05
... but because the art world
deems it the only painting...

1:08:08
... in William Gibbs'
short but brilliant career...

1:08:11
... that wasn't some view,
some study of the garden.

1:08:19
What those high-minded fools
don't know...

1:08:21
... is submerged in the water are some
two dozen sketches of the garden.

1:08:25
His first of my mother,
naked as the back of my hand.

1:08:29
Those he sketched first in pencil...
1:08:32
... then, like a murderer
burying the body...

1:08:36
... drowned in a wash of blue.

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