Art and language may seem like separate worlds.
One speaks through images, the other through words.
Yet both attempt the same thing.
To understand human experience across time and culture.
This site explores those connections.
Through essays, encounters, and the small details that reveal how civilizations think, create, and remember.
My favorite painting: Portrait of a Man with a Glove by Titian, I saw in person at the Louvre, Paris.
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Art and language are two ways humans try to understand each other.
This site documents the places where those worlds meet.
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