There has long been a rich discourse in art history on the relationship between word and image, body and soul, life and death, representation and abstraction. In this piece, I step away from architectural dogma to explore these themes with a lighthearted approach. Join me as I delve in, purely for the joy of it. Borges’ “The God’s Script” One of the most famous stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, “The God's Script“ tells the story of Tzinacan, an Aztec priest impri

on an empty canvas Rothko carefully frames a maximum of blankness of miniature existence devoid of scientific illusions and artificial...

Zhang Lu, The Daoist Philosopher Liezi  (album leaf), early 16th century. Shanghai Museum. Zhang Lu (ca. 1464–1538) was a professional painter from Kaifeng in Henan Province. He is often regarded as one of the leading Zhe School artists after Wu Wei, yet seventeenth-century literati critics also categorized him among the “wild and heterodox” painters. Much of Zhang’s surviving oeuvre consists of figure painting, a genre in which he both inherits Zhe School conventions and ass