S4E4 Bob Ross Paints Your Portrait

“The only colors we’re going to use will be blacker than most blacks. Mm-kay.” Terrance Hayes reads his poem, “ Bob Ross Paints Your Portrait .” 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 Ernst Reijseger . Additional Links: theparisreview.org/poetry/7883/bob-ross-paints-your-portrait-terrance-hayes

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S4E4 Bob Ross Paints Your Portrait is an episode from The Paris Review by The Paris Review.

This episode is 10:58 long.

This episode was published on Dec 13, 2023.

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