A graduate of UC Berkeley's Rhetoric department, Bryn enjoys discourse in all its forms. She prefers pragmatism to idealism, but then, she believes in everything.

Born in Ireland in 1909, Francis Bacon spent his formative years in a nation wracked by the Sinn Fein uprising, an event that haunted him long after his family moved to England. He never trained formally as a painter but began to pursue art in London in the late 1920s, eventually