The broaden and build theory in psychology makes the supposition that positive emotions will help us broaden our awareness - zoom out if you will - and can ‘encourage novel and exploratory thoughts and actions’. Over time, the theory goes, these developments help us to build resilience and and other life skills.

Delight is devoted to conjuring or capturing those experiences.

Not one emotion but an entire Emotional Gamut as conceived by, drawn, and catalogued by Akshita Chandra. An elemental chart that depicts and describes emotions based on color theory. A rambunctious convention of neologisms and design.

This is WONDER by April Sullivan. Blackout poetry and gouache, 2022.

WONDERMENT is a gift from Betsy Kaplan. Mixed collage in 2020.

Just days before the Capitol Riot, Margot Duane photographed PURE DELIGHT (2021) and described “looking into a magical candy store as a child.”