Modalities

  Albrecht Dürer , Melancholia (1514) Kenneth Clark writes:  "In the Middle Ages melancholia meant a simple combination of sloth, bored...

When despair for the world grows in me, I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their ...

Awaiting an expected phone call on a recent afternoon, I lay back on the bed in my Study and was struck by this color-and-shadow pattern on ...