Glasses; verso: Stein and Pipe 1911

Curator: This intriguing drawing, "Glasses; verso: Stein and Pipe" is by Juan Gris. Editor: It looks like crystal shards floating in a hazy dream. So delicate, but somehow sharp, too. Curator: Gris was a master of Cubism. Notice how he breaks down familiar forms into geometric components. The glasses become symbols of seeing, of deconstructing reality. Editor: It almost feels like a memory of a bar, or maybe an artist's studio—fragments of conversation, clinking glasses, the aroma of tobacco, all abstracted and rearranged. Curator: Precisely. It invites us to reconstruct those sensory experiences, to find order in the chaos. Editor: Like piecing together a puzzle of our own perceptions. It makes you wonder what else is hidden in plain sight.