No Man is an Island, Even in a Pandemic

Yuka Naito-Billen in a surgical mask

No man is an island. So says John Donne’s Meditation 17 in “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions.”  The next stanza goes: “Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” That sentiment feels palpable during these days of pandemic-forced lockdown to Robert Bingaman, a Kansas City painter. He was inspired to make…

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