Water Lilies / Impressionism

“When your impressionist paintings of heaven turned out to be fakes”

Uncle Jerry connects Taylor's 'impressionist paintings of heaven' to Claude Monet's Water Lilies series, noting that Monet painted his pond repeatedly at different times of year and day because impressionism is about the impression light makes on you, and that Monet said of his pond that it was heaven and that every day he went down and painted heaven. Uncle Jerry argues impressionism's blurred, personal quality, 'reliant on impressions', mirrors how the relationship appeared real but turned out to be fake, like a legend that evaporates.