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...