Day one hundred and fifty-seven: When I looked at these bottles this afternoon, I wasn’t sure qwhether I had just walked into a gallery at the Museum of Modern Art in New York or the Museo de Arte Precolombino in Cusco, Peru. Made between 2000-3000 years ago, each bottle demonstrates a remarkable and rare expression of symmetry and line through the careful balance of concave and convex forms. This very quick pencil sketch made with my index finger does not do justice to the true elegance of these treasures from pre-Columbian South America. Ancient modern design, or should I say modern ancient design?
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