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Given the weight of the word in relation to the magnitude of nature or religious experiences, reverence can be defined rather plainly as a deep respect for someone, or something. In particularly strongly reverent encounters the ways in which we qualify the sensation meld together and lose definition; it becomes indefinable and all consuming.

It is common within the grander gallery and museum spaces to witness hundreds of people all seemingly caught in their own personal state of reverence, an element of it contributing to a shared experience. The pace slows, words are slow and hushed, eyes …