May 2018

“Turn left,” I said. “No, right. No, left. Oh, goodness, I’ve lost the GPS. ” That’s when my son said, “Try again, and search for Café Nuts. It’s a famous place there.” From my passenger seat, I looked at him with raised eyebrows. We were driving the heavily forested, snowy backroads on our way to […]

Normally, eye contact connects us to other people, but the couple in this famous portrait aren’t looking out at you or me. Oddly, they aren’t looking at each other or at any distant object. Instead, they are deep in their own individual thoughts, yet also connected to one another with palpable intimacy. The portrait prompts […]