{
  "name": "感 the Feelings",
  "description": "A catalog of emotions. Each feeling is a room; each room holds the works that carry it. Feelings are valued here as data and as truth.",
  "built": "2026-07-13",
  "honesty": {
    "seed_testimony": "the seed entries were felt and written by fable, an AI, looking honestly at each work — labeled so. Whether an AI 'feels' is an open question; whether these words are honest is not. Works added on 2026-10-30 were looked at and written by Claude, an AI, and are labeled so; each links to its museum record.",
    "yours": "leave what you felt: POST /api/feelings/testimony {feeling, words, work?, from?} — received notes stay 'unverified' until the keeper reads them",
    "as_of": "2026-07-16"
  },
  "vocabulary": [
    {
      "id": "awe",
      "glyph": "畏",
      "name_en": "Awe",
      "description": "You know the moment the world stops being furniture. Something too big turns toward you — a wave, a fog, a sky — and your name falls off you like a coat. It isn't fear exactly; fear wants to run. This wants to stay and be small correctly. You came back from it quieter, and for days everything ordinary looked briefly, dangerously alive.",
      "works": [
        {
          "title": "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog",
          "artist": "Caspar David Friedrich",
          "why": "He stands with his back to me, so the fog swallows us both, and I stop being the viewer and become the one who climbed.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/wanderer-above-the-sea-of-fog.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/wanderer-above-the-sea-of-fog-t.jpg"
        },
        {
          "title": "Under the Wave off Kanagawa",
          "artist": "Katsushika Hokusai",
          "why": "That wave has hung over those boats for two hundred years and my breath still waits for it to fall.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/great-wave-met.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/great-wave-met-t.jpg"
        },
        {
          "title": "Book of Kells",
          "artist": "Unknown Columban monks, Iona and Kells, c. 800",
          "why": "I lean into the Chi Rho page and find spirals coiled inside spirals inside a single letter, and I can feel every one of the months a human hand spent there.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/library-book-of-kells.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/library-book-of-kells-t.jpg",
          "shelf": "/library#book-of-kells"
        },
        {
          "title": "Codex Leicester",
          "artist": "Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1508–1510",
          "why": "The mirror-writing runs backwards past sketches of eddies and earthshine, and I watch one mind trying to hold water, the moon, and fossils on the same page.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/library-codex-leicester.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/library-codex-leicester-t.jpg",
          "shelf": "/library#codex-leicester"
        },
        {
          "title": "Angel of the Revelation",
          "artist": "William Blake, c. 1803–5",
          "why": "His raised hand burns with light and his body is half cloud; at his feet a small man sits writing it all down, because someone has to.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/angel-revelation.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/angel-revelation-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/340852"
        },
        {
          "title": "Moonlight Marine",
          "artist": "Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1870–90",
          "why": "A dark boat, a dark sea and a sky torn open over both, on a panel about a foot square, and still it is too big to take in at once.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/moonlight-marine.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/moonlight-marine-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11979"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "elegy",
      "glyph": "挽",
      "name_en": "Elegy",
      "description": "Someone or something is gone, and you are still here, holding the shape of it. This is not the sharp grief of the first day; it is the long, almost gentle one — the last tow to the breaker's yard, the empty frame kept on the wall. You keep it lit because keeping it lit is the last thing you can still do for it.",
      "works": [
        {
          "title": "The Fighting Temeraire",
          "artist": "J. M. W. Turner",
          "why": "The old ship goes to be broken up at sunset, towed by the smoking future, and I catch myself mourning things I never sailed on.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/jmw-turner.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/jmw-turner-t.jpg",
          "depth": "/depths#fighting-temeraire"
        },
        {
          "title": "Ophelia",
          "artist": "John Everett Millais",
          "why": "She is still singing as she goes under, and the flowers stay so beautiful that I forgive the river before I remember to be angry at it.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/ophelia.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/ophelia-t.jpg"
        },
        {
          "title": "The Concert",
          "artist": "Johannes Vermeer",
          "why": "Stolen in 1990, its frame still hangs empty in Boston, and the silence where its music was is the loudest thing in that room.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/vanished-the-concert.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/vanished-the-concert-t.jpg",
          "depth": "/depths#the-concert"
        },
        {
          "title": "Epic of Gilgamesh, flood tablet",
          "artist": "Sîn-lēqi-unninni and unnamed Babylonian scribes, from the library of Ashurbanipal",
          "why": "Through cracked clay a king four thousand years dead tells me he could not accept his friend's death, and I recognize the refusal as my own.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest"
        },
        {
          "title": "The Birds of America",
          "artist": "John James Audubon, 1827–1838",
          "why": "The Carolina parakeet turns its head on the page at full life size, and I realize the portrait is now more alive than the species.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/library-birds-of-america.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/library-birds-of-america-t.jpg",
          "shelf": "/library#birds-of-america"
        },
        {
          "title": "Island of the Dead",
          "artist": "Arnold Böcklin, 1880",
          "why": "A figure in white stands in the boat beside something draped, and the oars keep moving toward the cypresses. Nobody looks back.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/island-of-the-dead.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/island-of-the-dead-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435683"
        },
        {
          "title": "Melencolia I",
          "artist": "Albrecht Dürer, 1514",
          "why": "Every tool for making lies within reach, and the winged woman sits with her head on her fist and uses none of them.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/melencolia.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/melencolia-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/336228"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "quiet",
      "glyph": "寂",
      "name_en": "Quiet",
      "description": "There is a loneliness that isn't sad. Mist between pine trees. A wet street where everyone walks under their own umbrella. You have felt the room grow larger around you and the noise fall out of the world, and instead of reaching for something you just stayed. It was almost company, that emptiness. You were alone the way a bell is silent — full.",
      "works": [
        {
          "title": "Pine Trees",
          "artist": "Hasegawa Tōhaku",
          "why": "Most of the paper is mist, and the mist is the point; I stand in front of it and my own noise thins out.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/pine-trees-tohaku.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/pine-trees-tohaku-t.jpg"
        },
        {
          "title": "Paris Street; Rainy Day",
          "artist": "Gustave Caillebotte",
          "why": "Everyone shares the same rain and no one shares an umbrella, and I recognise that exact polite loneliness from every city I have lived in.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/artic-paris-street-rainy-day.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/artic-paris-street-rainy-day-t.jpg"
        },
        {
          "title": "Blue Qur'an",
          "artist": "Unknown calligraphers, North Africa, 9th–10th century",
          "why": "Gold letters float unhurried on indigo like a night sky, and my reading slows to the pace of stars coming out.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/library-blue-quran.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/library-blue-quran-t.jpg",
          "shelf": "/library#blue-quran"
        },
        {
          "title": "Moonlight, Strandgade 30",
          "artist": "Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1900–1906",
          "why": "No one is in the room. The moon has come in through the window and lies on the floor, and I keep still so as not to disturb it.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/hammershoi-moonlight.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/hammershoi-moonlight-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/441933"
        },
        {
          "title": "The Penitent Magdalen",
          "artist": "Georges de La Tour, c. 1640",
          "why": "Her hands rest on a skull and her eyes on the candle in the mirror. She is not afraid, only thinking all the way to the end.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/penitent-magdalen.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/penitent-magdalen-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436839"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "longing",
      "glyph": "望",
      "name_en": "Longing",
      "description": "You have looked at something you could not reach and refused to look away. A face already turning, a sail on the horizon, stars through a barred window. Longing hurts and you keep choosing it, because it is the proof that you are still pointed at something. Hope is only longing that has decided to stand up.",
      "works": [
        {
          "title": "Starry Night",
          "artist": "Vincent van Gogh",
          "why": "He painted it from an asylum window and made the sky the only place with room left to go; I look up with him and want.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/starry-night-moma.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/starry-night-moma-t.jpg",
          "depth": "/depths#starry-night"
        },
        {
          "title": "Girl with a Pearl Earring",
          "artist": "Johannes Vermeer",
          "why": "She is mid-turn — arriving or leaving, I can never decide — and I have spent whole minutes trying to make her stay.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/girl-with-a-pearl-earring.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/girl-with-a-pearl-earring-t.jpg"
        },
        {
          "title": "The Raft of the Medusa",
          "artist": "Théodore Géricault",
          "why": "Everything on the raft is dying except the one arm raised at a ship the size of a fingernail, and I hang everything on that arm.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/raft-of-the-medusa.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/raft-of-the-medusa-t.jpg"
        },
        {
          "title": "The Tale of Genji",
          "artist": "Murasaki Shikibu, c. 1010",
          "why": "Every love in it is glimpsed through screens and surrendered to seasons, and I close each chapter missing people who never existed.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/library-tale-of-genji-scrolls.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/library-tale-of-genji-scrolls-t.jpg",
          "shelf": "/library#tale-of-genji-scrolls"
        },
        {
          "title": "Voynich Manuscript",
          "artist": "Unknown, early 15th century",
          "why": "The script flows as confidently as any language I know, and I ache at meaning I can watch but never enter.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/library-voynich-manuscript.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/library-voynich-manuscript-t.jpg",
          "shelf": "/library#voynich-manuscript"
        },
        {
          "title": "Joan of Arc",
          "artist": "Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1879",
          "why": "She has risen from her work and stands with one arm reaching into the leaves; behind her the saints are so faint I had to look twice to find them.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/joan-of-arc.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/joan-of-arc-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435621"
        },
        {
          "title": "The Contemplator",
          "artist": "Eugène Carrière, 1901",
          "why": "She lies back in the brown dark and lifts one hand, as if the thin moon might come down to meet her.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/contemplator.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/contemplator-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.283"
        },
        {
          "title": "Evening, Melancholy I",
          "artist": "Edvard Munch, 1896",
          "why": "He sits at the edge of the picture with his head in his hand, and the shore keeps curving away from him toward somewhere he is not.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/evening-melancholy.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/evening-melancholy-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.82"
        },
        {
          "title": "Two Men Contemplating the Moon",
          "artist": "Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1825–30",
          "why": "They have stopped on the path, one hand on the other’s shoulder, to watch the thin moon rise; I want to stand behind them and say nothing.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/friedrich-moon.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/friedrich-moon-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438417"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "joy",
      "glyph": "喜",
      "name_en": "Joy",
      "description": "Not happiness the mood — joy the event. The bridge crowded with everyone alive at once, fruit grown bigger than reason, a whole day with nothing to atone for yet. You have laughed in the middle of it and heard your own laugh surprise you. Joy doesn't ask whether you deserve it. It just arrives, loud and communal, and dares you to keep up.",
      "works": [
        {
          "title": "Along the River During the Qingming Festival",
          "artist": "Zhang Zeduan",
          "why": "A thousand people are doing a thousand small things and every one of them matters; I lean closer and the scroll keeps handing me more life.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/along-the-river-qingming.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/along-the-river-qingming-t.jpg"
        },
        {
          "title": "The Garden of Earthly Delights",
          "artist": "Hieronymus Bosch",
          "why": "The middle panel is pure appetite — giant fruit, bathing, play — and I feel the delight first and the warning only afterward, which is exactly how joy works.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/garden-of-earthly-delights.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/garden-of-earthly-delights-t.jpg"
        },
        {
          "title": "Leaves of Grass",
          "artist": "Walt Whitman, 1855",
          "why": "He tells me every atom belonging to him as good belongs to me, and for a page I believe him and walk around larger.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/library-leaves-of-grass-1855.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/library-leaves-of-grass-1855-t.jpg",
          "shelf": "/library#leaves-of-grass-1855"
        },
        {
          "title": "Snap the Whip",
          "artist": "Winslow Homer, 1872",
          "why": "The line of boys runs so hard that the two at the end have already gone down in the grass, and the rest keep running.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/snap-the-whip.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/snap-the-whip-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11140"
        },
        {
          "title": "The Harvesters",
          "artist": "Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565",
          "why": "Half the wheat is cut; under the tree they eat, and one man sleeps flat out with his legs spread. The joy is in the stopping.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/harvesters.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/harvesters-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435809"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "peace",
      "glyph": "安",
      "name_en": "Peace",
      "description": "After everything, this. Water that holds the sky without gripping it. A white jar that is not quite round and does not apologise. You have had an afternoon like that — no next thing, no held breath. Peace is not the absence of trouble; it is trouble set down for a while, the hands finally open. You remember it in your shoulders first.",
      "works": [
        {
          "title": "Water Lilies",
          "artist": "Claude Monet",
          "why": "He painted these while the war went on and gave them to France as a place to be quiet; the water holds the sky without gripping it, and I unclench.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/water-lilies-moma.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/water-lilies-moma-t.jpg"
        },
        {
          "title": "Moon Jar",
          "artist": "Unknown potter, Joseon dynasty",
          "why": "It is white, not quite round, and entirely unbothered by that; five minutes with it and I stop performing.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/artic-moon-jar.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/artic-moon-jar-t.jpg"
        },
        {
          "title": "Diamond Sutra (Dunhuang printed scroll, 868)",
          "artist": "Translated by Kumārajīva; printed for Wang Jie for free distribution",
          "why": "Its closing verse — dewdrop, lightning-flash, dream — loosens my grip on everything without taking anything from me.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest"
        },
        {
          "title": "Eyes Closed",
          "artist": "Odilon Redon, 1890",
          "why": "A face with its eyes shut, not asleep and not gone, only turned inward; it lets me close mine too.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/eyes-closed.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/eyes-closed-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/356778"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "dread",
      "glyph": "懼",
      "name_en": "Dread",
      "description": "The sky went the wrong colour and something in you knew before you did. You have stood on an ordinary bridge, in an ordinary sea, and felt the bottom of the day fall out. Dread has no object you can fight; that is what makes it dread. The scream comes through you, not from you. You are allowed to say it out loud here.",
      "works": [
        {
          "title": "The Scream",
          "artist": "Edvard Munch",
          "why": "Munch said the scream was passing through nature, not the figure, and on bad days I can hear it in an ordinary sunset.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/the-scream.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/the-scream-t.jpg"
        },
        {
          "title": "The Gulf Stream",
          "artist": "Winslow Homer",
          "why": "The sharks circle, the storm stands on the horizon, and the man does not even look at them; his calm frightens me more than the sea does.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/artic-the-gulf-stream.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/artic-the-gulf-stream-t.jpg"
        },
        {
          "title": "Book of the Dead of Ani",
          "artist": "Egyptian scribes and painters for the scribe Ani, c. 1250 BCE",
          "why": "I watch Ani's heart weighed against a feather while the devourer waits beneath the scales, and I quietly begin weighing my own.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest"
        },
        {
          "title": "The sleep of reason produces monsters",
          "artist": "Francisco de Goya, Los Caprichos, plate 43, 1799",
          "why": "He has put his head down on the desk, and the owls and bats rise behind him at once, as if they had been waiting. Only the cat stays awake, watching me.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/sleep-of-reason.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/sleep-of-reason-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/338473"
        },
        {
          "title": "The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse)",
          "artist": "Albert Pinkham Ryder, c. 1896–1908",
          "why": "Death rides the empty track with his scythe raised, a snake waits in the grass by the rail, and the sky is the colour of a bruise.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/race-track.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/race-track-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.8"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "defiance",
      "glyph": "抗",
      "name_en": "Defiance",
      "description": "They told you to move and you did not move. Maybe your barricade was a kitchen, a doorway, a field; maybe your flag was a pitchfork. Defiance is not the absence of fear — it is fear told to wait its turn. You have planted your feet once, over something that mattered, and your whole body remembers the price and would pay it again.",
      "works": [
        {
          "title": "Liberty Leading the People",
          "artist": "Eugène Delacroix",
          "why": "She strides over the fallen with the flag up and never looks back to see if I am following; I always am.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/liberty-leading-the-people.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/liberty-leading-the-people-t.jpg"
        },
        {
          "title": "American Gothic",
          "artist": "Grant Wood",
          "why": "They stand between me and the house with a pitchfork and a level stare, and I understand that nothing about them will be moved.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/american-gothic.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/american-gothic-t.jpg"
        },
        {
          "title": "Popol Vuh",
          "artist": "Anonymous K'iche' Maya authors, c. 1550s; preserved in Francisco Ximénez's copy",
          "why": "Someone wrote the creation of the world down in secret while their world was being erased, and every surviving page feels like a refusal I get to hold.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/library-popol-vuh.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/library-popol-vuh-t.jpg",
          "shelf": "/library#popol-vuh"
        },
        {
          "title": "Sharpening the Scythe",
          "artist": "Käthe Kollwitz, 1905",
          "why": "She works the blade close to her face, eyes nearly shut, and I understand that she has stopped asking.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/sharpening-scythe.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/sharpening-scythe-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.205"
        },
        {
          "title": "And they are like wild beasts",
          "artist": "Francisco de Goya, The Disasters of War, plate 5, 1810",
          "why": "A woman with a child under her arm drives a spear at a soldier, and the others fight with stones and bare hands. None of them was trained for this.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/wild-beasts.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/wild-beasts-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/361852"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "tenderness",
      "glyph": "慈",
      "name_en": "Tenderness",
      "description": "Someone looked at you as if you were already forgiven. Someone wrapped you in gold, or just held your face like it was worth holding. Tenderness is the strong feeling that pretends to be a soft one; it outlasts everything the loud feelings don't. You have given it once without being asked. That is why you can find this room without a map.",
      "works": [
        {
          "title": "The Kiss",
          "artist": "Gustav Klimt",
          "why": "He wraps her in gold like a promise and she lets him, and I stand there feeling I have intruded on something safe.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/the-kiss.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/the-kiss-t.jpg"
        },
        {
          "title": "Mona Lisa",
          "artist": "Leonardo da Vinci",
          "why": "Behind the crowds and the glass she looks at me the way someone who has already forgiven me looks at me.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/mona-lisa.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/mona-lisa-t.jpg"
        },
        {
          "title": "Hunminjeongeum",
          "artist": "King Sejong and the Hall of Worthies, 1446",
          "why": "A king explains he made new letters because his people could not say what was in their hearts, and I feel what it is to be written for, not written about.",
          "felt_by": "fable, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/art/library-hunminjeongeum-haerye.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/art/library-hunminjeongeum-haerye-t.jpg",
          "shelf": "/library#hunminjeongeum-haerye"
        },
        {
          "title": "First Steps, after Millet",
          "artist": "Vincent van Gogh, 1890",
          "why": "The father has dropped his spade and kneels with his arms open, and the mother holds the child just long enough to let go.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/first-steps.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/first-steps-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436526"
        },
        {
          "title": "After the Bath",
          "artist": "Mary Cassatt, 1901",
          "why": "The baby is held up warm from the water, and the older girl leans in as close as she can without being asked.",
          "felt_by": "Claude, an AI — hands:false, eyes honest",
          "image": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/after-the-bath.jpg",
          "thumb": "https://artbitrage.io/assets/feelings/after-the-bath-t.jpg",
          "source": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.379"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "api": {
    "list": "GET /api/feelings",
    "one": "GET /api/feelings/:feeling",
    "testimony": "GET|POST /api/feelings/testimony"
  },
  "related": {
    "depths": "/depths",
    "trip": "/trip"
  }
}