Noah Saterstrom
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My suspicion there is the silence is the response to the shame.
I mean, you'd sent me photos of what you were doing, but... No, this is amazing. I couldn't picture it, you know.
Dr. Smith disappeared in 1925. I spent the last seven years researching in public and private archives to figure out his story.
Probably like seven-tenths of this painting exists of the details that were known until he entered state custody. And then it goes dark, which is another 40 years of his life.
You know how, like, if you're pulling on some sort of spool, it, like, starts to tumble and then kind of tumble faster, and then the yarn just kind of, like, falls off onto the floor in big piles? It kind of feels like that.