Wassily Kandinsky Spitzen im Bogen, 1927. One day, I found myself lost in a daydream, with my focus drifting between the note and the painting. I considered how the words on the note would appear in a context that was independent of the painting it described. I found myself wondering: What meaning do the words “Wassily Kandinsky Spitzen im Bogen, 1927” hold should they be viewed wholly independent of the painting they describe? What did the painting mean if I had no knowledge of Kan- dinsky? What would the words on the Post-it mean if that painting had never existed? The words would mean little beyond whatever feelings those sounds and syllables that comprised them stirred. That meaning, independent of the painting, is wholly ab- stract. But with the painting, and the knowledge of who Kandinsky is, the movement he was a part of, and his body of work, meaning emerges.