Recently, I vis­ited the SF Museum of Mod­ern Art to see the William Ken­tridge show, Five Themes before it closed. I dis­cov­ered his work at the Carnegie Inter­na­tional show in 1999 when his piece, Stere­o­scope caught my atten­tion; I’ve been a fan ever since. The show beau­ti­fully rep­re­sented the breadth of Mr. Kentridge’s work. I could’ve spent a week­end just in that exhibit alone:

Upon fur­ther explo­ration, this piece by Mario Merz caught my eye too:

The Lens of Rot­ter­dam


What was so great about this piece wasn’t just its scale, but its ele­gant sim­plic­ity— glass plates clamped to a min­i­mal steel frame, shel­ter­ing or focus­ing over rough hewn stones.


After a few weeks of cre­ative stag­na­tion, explor­ing the museum was just the spark I needed to shift my brain back into focus. After a wan­der among the exhibits, even the tex­tures of the walls excited me:



The effect in the last two pho­tos above was achieved by paint­ing the pat­tern with vary­ing lev­els of gloss and matte fin­ish. A cool effect to remem­ber once I’ve found a home to purchse…