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Black and white still from the video installation showing a ghostly woman floating above a man reclining on a couch, both surrounded by abstract, organic shapes.

The Aorta of an Archivist

Dylan Mortimer, "The Ceiling Can't Hold Us," 2018

Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body

detail: Eagle Hat by Preston Singletary

The Object Speaks

Landscape with Four Trees by Birger Sandzén

20/21

detail of La Pia de' Tolomei, 1868–1880 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Forms of Thought

A Chat by the Fireside by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Empire of Things

<a href='http://collection.spencerart.ku.edu/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=21603&viewType=detailView' target='_blank'><i>Morning in the Adirondacks</i> by Sanford Robinson Gifford</a>

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