“Platonic Lament” engraving Aubrey Beardsley (1894)

Inspired by lines in...

“Paul Klee on Modern Art” Paul Klee
“Still Life with Witch-hazel” essay Chris Arthur

Lament in Language and Art

Can anything and everything be expressed and transmitted
in the form of contrast.

Printed words of black and white offer language which opens the world.
Positive and negative electrical charges, the computer and its mathematical genius.

But the world is not two colors but many and so we depend upon art
but here is art in just two colors, black and white, portraying grief.

We rely on language and art as our tools, our means of knowing
But “Art does not reproduce the visible, rather, it makes it visible.”

Language does not reproduce but rather offers “the foliage
of feeling, memory, and connection, a terrain densely threaded

with a network of paths that crisscross repeatedly between past
and present” always with the ever-present reality of loss and grief.