Drawing from works like Earthquakes and Explorations: Language and Painting from Cubism to Concrete Poetry by Stephen Scobie, which views radical shifts in art as seismic shifts.
Using Scobie's framework of "Earthquakes and Explorations" to understand artistic shifts.
While the "earthquakes" of life—pain and catastrophe—are inevitable, our "explorations" through language allow us to find meaning in the rubble.