The recurring themes in my art are never limited by the availability of a specific medium. My art is time sensitive and reflects my environment and the people in my life. I let intuition and risk-taking lead me toward completion. Often a painting is reworked over many months, sometimes years, becoming a visual journal.
- Kate Zehnter
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The word ampersand is a conflation of the phrase "and per se and", meaning "and by itself and".
The ampersand can be traced back to the 1st century A.D. and the Old Roman cursive, in which the letters E and T occasionally were written together to form a ligature.
In English speaking schools it was common practice to add at the end of the alphabet the "&" sign as the 27th letter, pronounces and. The recitation of the alphabet would end in: "X, Y, Z and per se and". This last phrase was routinely slurred to "ampersand" and the term crept into common English usage by around 1837.
