Drawn to Paper
A museum provides magnifying glasses to visitors of an exhibit of drawings. I’m sure the idea is to study the fine lines and details in the art, but I couldn’t help also taking the opportunity to get a closer look at the paper hosting the art work. Fabulous! How clever to provide the magnifiers. Perhaps I’ll bring my own the next time I go to a museum to view art.
My favorite work might possibly be Composite Elephant–an elephant from the 1700s shaped by a vareity of animals–a fish made up its trunk, a cat’s head one of its feet, birds in the legs and body along with small mammals and lots of other creatures. I hoped there’d be a postcard or something of it I could purchase, but no luck. It’s the kind of work I would hang on my wall to stare at for a long time because I’d notice something new in it every day. It’s very detailed and is no bigger than a typical sheet of paper.
If you’re going to go, go soon. Sunday, June 12, is the last day of the exhibit.
