More about last week's trip to the Detroit Institute of Arts, which was ripe with artistic inspiration and new discoveries. Sometimes it pays to slow down a little bit on the way to the gift shop, if you know what I mean. Usually my trips to the DIA are so few and far between that I'm scrambling to see all of my favorites, spending far too little time taking them in before rushing to the next. During this visit, however, I discovered my now favorite nook of the museum, the Africa, Oceania, and Indigenous Americas collection. Not only was it a quiet spot among the crowds, but it was appropriately dimly lit just enough to make all the statues, masks, figures, and paintings quite heavy with meaning. It was like taking a step into an archeological site; foreign enough to be mysterious, beautiful enough to be awe-inspiring, old enough to be reverent. The large-scale painting above is grand, the colors luminous and the graphic animals are quite modern. Other pieces caught my eye too, for my love of folk art and symbology comes alive with them. - l.o.d.
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