As everyone knows, English loves to borrow words from other languages.  But we don’t just borrow any old word; the words we borro...

        How’s this for a vacation activity?  This woman appears to be parasailing or windsurfing on a fishy sea monster!         This w...

        Here’s a fun surreal piece by Neil Brigham.  Surrealism has broad overlap with fantasy, and this could illustrate the high-tech v...

        Yes, I’m one of those countless fans who lists Pride and Prejudice among my all-time favorite books.  But as we all know, there’...

        Here are two wood block prints entitled Opposite one and Opposite two .  I don’t know the significance, or what that’s supposed ...

        Humans love stories of lost cities.  I guess it just seems so much more likely that something is merely lost than that it has nev...

        Here’s the second half of the relief block prints of Venice, Italy, showing some recurring themes, and some additional variety.  ...

        Here are a selection of relief block prints depicting the city of Venice, Italy.  As a famous and celebrated city for centuries, ...

        The griffin just above in the heading of this blog is based on a stone carving on one of the buildings on the Yale University cam...