“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way — things I had no words for.” - Georgia O'Keeffe

The story feels almost mythic, a painting about chaos, stolen in chaos, swallowed by the world it once tried to depict.

“Color fades, but feeling remains.” — Henri Matisse

“Chance is the twin of uncertainty” - Paul Auster

Artists give form to what science measures; scientists give truth to what artists feel. Together they can push memory, image, policy, maybe even hope, forward.

The land is so harsh and the winters so long, that only the hardiest of souls dare venture out. Yet this same land, if you let it, will shape you, will change you.

He had learned the trick of silence, to let the great world speak while he listened.

“The world is as full of brutality as the sea is full of motion. And some men are made sick by the one, and some by the other.”