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Ceramic visions of veritas. Photographs by Flint Born.
Visions of Veritas

Earlier this year, John T. Bethell, senior editor of Harvard Magazine, examined the evolution of Harvard's arms as depicted in metal typographic blocks ("Variations on a Theme," March-April, page 64). Little did we know, as that issue was published, how brashly modern interpreters might render the emblematic three open books and Veritas motto. Working in clay, that oldest of media, members of the Radcliffe College Ceramics Studio-faculty, staff, students, and Bostonians at large-expressed their personal visions of Veritas in an explosion of colors and forms. Other Harvardians-Adams and Dunster House undergraduates, members of visual and environmental studies classes, Neil and Angelica Rudenstine-decorated preformed blanks.

Several dozen of the resulting tiles, gathered as "Visions of Veritas," were mounted and displayed on the walls of Holyoke Center's Mount Auburn Street access ramp for April's Arts First festivities. And there they remained into early summer, not only delighting passersby with the diverse possibilities of today's Harvard, but also lending a splash of color to the concrete monolith looming overhead. This fall, a few of the best go on permanent display at Adams House.

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