“The only colors we’re going to use will be blacker than most blacks. Mm-kay.” Terrance Hayes reads his poem, “<a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/7883/bob-ross-paints-your-portrait-terrance-hayes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bob Ross Paints Your Portrait</a>.” An homage to the iconic host of the PBS show The Joy of Painting, and an exploration of blackness: “deep-space black, black-hole black … lampblack and ink black, boot black and blackjack and blacker.”


This episode was produced by Helena de Groot and John DeLore. It was sound-designed, mixed, and features original scoring by Helena de Groot. Our theme song this season is “Shadow,” composed and performed by<a href="https://ernstreijseger.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Ernst Reijseger</a>.

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