A second thematic journey I took with Four Quartets was as a painter. I did a series of paintings with the titles of Four Quartets and exhibited them in Tribeca in my first solo show after 9/11. That led to a second cycle, the collaborative project called Qu4rtets. My paintings and Bruce Herman’s are joined in this exhibition that responds to Eliot; Bruce is deeply moved by Eliot’s poetry, too. One of the first times I heard of Bruce was at a gathering of the organization Christians in the Visual Arts in 1997. I had

