In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Apollo, the god of music and poetry, was afflicted by an infatuation for the beautiful nymph Daphne. He pursued her relentlessly until, unable to escape his clutches, she was transformed into a laurel tree by the river god Peneus in order to save her from...
Arbor Vitae
The inscription on Arbor Vitae was done by a female Japanese student who chanced upon my Orvieto gallery one day. I asked her if she could write some Japanese calligraphy, anything as long as it was beautiful. She wrote in silver ink directly on the print, "Even a chance...