Before he became a photographer, Wilce had a 30 year career as a scholar, researcher, author,, and teacher, from his doctoral studies and fieldwork as a UCLA student to his 25 year career at Northern Arizona University. He specialized in language (linguistic anthropology), illness, health and healing (medical anthropology), and finally emotion and even madness (psychological anthropology). Throughout this career Wilce shot photos and video. My focus has been on art, including the poetry of language ("verbal art"), and now visual art— see? There is a common thread running through my career.