He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

— Stanisław J. Lec

Fame Point, Quebec, Canada 1975

In 1945, aboard a troopship with hundreds of soldiers returning stateside during WWII from CBI, Gutmann captured this photo. Always fascinated with visual language, he was attracted to the simplistic markings, and the love-tokens the returning soldiers displayed on their arms, legs, and chests.

The sleeping lady, Alaska

Vulnerability at its heart is the willingness to show up and be seen when you can’t control perception.

The piece is a meditation on death. Pärt's biographer, suggests that "how we live depends on our relationship with death: how we make music depends on our relationship to silence." It is significant that the piece begins and ends with silence—that the silence is written in the score. This silence creates a frame around the piece and has spiritual significance. It suggests that we come from silence, and return to silence; it reminds us that before we were born and after we die we are silent with respect to this world.

Finnish troops holding RK-62 rifles & wearing stahlhelms, late 1960s or 1970s

Unfinished Manhattan Bridge in 1908 and Today

Nothing that grieves us can be called little. By the eternal law of proportions a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of his crown are events of the same size.

- Mark Twain