ABSTRACT
It was one of those late winter days in Evanston, Illinois. Overcast grey sky. Overcold windchilled thirty-something degrees. Overly humid lake effect dreariness. A fitting day for my quarter grading finally to be over. Donning my overcoat, I got into my car and sped to the airport, there to collect my collaborator on this retroscapes project, Stephen Brown, on the last leg of his jaunt across the pond. While the coming vernal equinox portended the kind of light-and-shadows balance I hoped our partnership would bring to the project, I couldn’t have orchestrated a more fitting climatic embrace.
