The world can now fit in your pocket. It's an efficient diminishment that can't quite do justice to truth or beauty or art and Nature. Seeing the work of a great artist in public in its original form is still the undefeated champion as experiences go. Instagram is great and all but... Ruth Azawa's work is both subtle and powerful - often within the same work or even the same twisted piece of wire. She bends nature to her whim without compromising either. I was captivated by the shadows the work cast on the wall and the negative space around her sculptural forms, Probably because the pieces arrayed in conversation made me so receptive to my surroundings. That eye for the sublime hiding all around us is what make a great artist. For awhile at least I felt like I had that power too as I wandered through the world. You can't fit all that in your pocket
