April 28, 2000

Truly modern art is a blend of the emotional and the scientific, of human reaction to cold technology. How could anyone ignore or deny the effects of technology in today's world?

These words have reached you via computer, transcribed to disk, typeset with software, sent on their merry way to the bookmaker via high-speed, digital network.

All so you can see the bright little poem Mary slipped to me on the way back home from our field trip to the San Francisco MOMA:

	luce, calore corpus accenditur,
	doctore docte spiritus ardens...

				-MAB

Such a clever little girl...