SFX: Theramin, setting strange and dreamy mood 

NARRATOR: 

What is that thing? A looming spaceship? A water tower? 

SFX: fades into birds chirping, sounds of nature waking up at dawn.  

SARAH ROBERTS:  

It’s an eyeball. It’s part of a ship. Part of an automobile.  

CAITLIN HASKELL:  

Grain elevator, I don’t know 

NARRATOR:  

It’s a painting that makes even curators wonder.  

ROBERTS:  

I’ve never had an answer that made perfect sense to me, and I can think of a hundred different things that it could be.  

NARRATOR:  

But why would Arthur Dove paint a landscape, and then block so much of the view? Artist Leslie Shows knows a lot about landscapes, and she loves this painting. Let’s ask her. 

LESLIE SHOWS: 

To me the heart of this painting is the reflection, I think it’s so beautiful there is something about mirroring and reflection that seems really profound to me. And it kind of, in a certain way to me, speaks to … almost like a consciousness observing the world and the world looking back, there is sort of a beholder and beheld and they’re regarding each other.