LEONARDO: Thoughts on a Cultural Icon

	The hands which painted the head of Christ
	and smile on the Virgin Mary's face
	also designed machines to reap lives
	as easily as wheat from umbrian plains

	The mind which pondered the mysteries of flight
	and motions of complex shapes
	also toyed with corpses
	dissecting cadavers for play

	With canvases gazing in silence
	and sketchbooks filled with arcane imagery
	Leonardo continues to amaze us
	with surprising incongruities


Will:    Isn't Leonardo an icon of human intelligence?

Kasim:   Indeed, he's an apt personification of our complexities.

Nadia:   As long as written history exists, we'll probably ponder about his achievements.

Wan-Sze: No doubt – the love of speculation and desire to make meaning out of 
         contradiction is one of our hallmarks.


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from How Weird: Out of the Box of Expectations by T Newfields
Summary:  A conversation, poem, and image about Leonardo da Vinci.
Keywords: multi-talented people, Renaissance ideals, cultural icons, human incongruities

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 1995 in Shizuoka, Japan ☆ Finished: 2011 in Tokyo, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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