“The real poet studies the world as it is: lovely, terrible, sensible,
grotesque; and would ask for no other in its place. Humor is the final sign and
seal of seriousness for it is a proof that reality is held in honor and in
love.” -- Mark van Doren
Ann Rogula
Sojourn, 1999, oil on
canvas.
“Out of this confusion the mind will be furnished with
an abundance of designs and subjects, perfectly new.”
--Leonardo DaVinci