human face speaks with silent eloquence

(my niece ryoko.)

Consider the way a human face speaks with silent eloquence...the face of a man or woman constitutes 'the most sign-packed surface in the universe.' Nothing else we see carries more meaning. Every face displays a pattern of dense emotional responses in the present and an archive of its owner's experience in the past. And each one is both unique and mysterious.
- r. fulford, n. post