“Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all—oneself,” architect Louis Kahn stated. “Nobody knows his own frontiers.

Lord Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam and “Ulysses,” which famously closes with the final lines: “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

As legendary playwright Christopher Fry reminds us: Who apart From ourselves, can see any difference between Our victories and our defeats?12

“The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.”27

“Pictures have a power akin to song,” Douglass said. “Give me the making of a nations [sic] ballads, and I care not who has the making of its Laws.”36

outcome is determined by our inner resources—our spirit, will, belief, and focus.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. —MICHELANGELO

truancy.

Perhaps a nineteenth-century synonym comes closer—blankness—a poetic term for the wiping clean that this experience can provide. It hints, too, at the limitlessness that often comes next.10