The article presents the text of a speech by artist Dominic Heffer delivered at the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture Series and the Institute of General Semantics (IGS) Conference held in New York City in October 2013. Topics of the lecture include the parallels between general semantics (GS) methodology and the perception of Heffer about painting, a film piece about a painting, also called a Film-Painting, and the depiction of the Tower of Babel.