The Orlando tragedy: This art seeks to speak to our grieving hearts

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THE HORRIFIC happens, and we reach for words to comprehend an evil incomprehensible.

We reach out to talk, trying to speak the unspeakable and fathom the unfathomable.

Some, like actor Frank Langella at Sunday night’s Tony Awards, are able to offer a speech that supplies girding strength and inspiration.

We turn to political and spiritual leaders, hoping their words will console us and comfort us and help us grieve.

And then often, we need something beyond words. We need symbols. We need art, be it visual or aural. We seek something sensory that speaks to us personally, and heals us collectively.

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