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Just like text, the image is legible. While we more closely associate the former with reading, visual representation predates the written word by tens of thousands of years. Just like the caves of Maros-Pangkep karst in Indonesia–currently holding the tenuous position of “oldest known figurative art in the world”–conglomerate otherwise humble lines into grand narratives of wild beasts and megaflora, our languages continue to compress ideas into abstracted forms to expedite communication. At its barest of bones, how much has changed in our collective will to express?

Thorell architects a …