Despite seeing a lot of really beautiful things today, I wanted to talk about the stairs in the Precolombian art museum because that was the one thing that I was most surprised about. Of course I knew that the descent into the dimly lit gallery was significant, and I expected the exhibit itself to be amazing, but the variance of the stair structure was very interesting. I first started to notice on the way down that the gap in the center was shifting horizontally: the landings were not all the same length, and as I started to look at it more, I knew I wanted to draw it to see it in a way that is otherwise not possible. The blackness of the material really exaggerated the darkening effect of delving into the depths beneath the surface. Here I attached the sketch of the stairs.
