The artist Lesley Dill dislikes the term “appropriation.” She feels it is “outdated” and undermines her deep relationship with other artists, most of whom are deceased. She explains her process: “It is more how Jonathan Edwards, the Puritan minister, would call being swallowed up by God. May we let the work speak for itself? My relationship to words is so deep and so intimate and so forceful, it feels as if the theme of appropriation undercuts my psyche.”