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Tactility for the Eye

My wife and I took our two little girls to the Phoenix Art Museum yesterday.  It was the first museum trip for us in roughly five years.  Needless to say a lot has transpired in that period of time.  As I moved from one exhibit to the next and from one piece to the next; I found myself inextricably drawn to a majority of the sculptural and three dimensional works.  I must mention first and foremost that "You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies" by Yayoi Kusama, is far an above one installation work that is a joy of mine to visit every time I'm at the museum.  If you find yourself at the PAM, spend some time in it and just absorb it.   The reason I mention my primary focus on three dimensional works is that it was the first time I've been so universally drawn to them.  This is an outlier for me as I have always seen myself as more of a two dimensional artist (primarily in photography) and typically preferred mediums in the...