WHALE SKELETON AS MOBILE MATRIX IS "WONDER FULL"

Found objects are often an outlet for creative expression.  Seldom, however, have any of us happened on something so awesome and grand as the centerpiece of a retrospective of work by Gabriel Orozco currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).  

Embellished and transformed, the whale skeleton, excavated from the sands of Baja California, has been fitted on a metal armature and inscribed with graphite rings and circles. (According to an article in the New York Times, 6,000 mechanical pencil leads were used up in the process!)  It has become Mobile Matrix, a work of art at once commanding, delightful and "wonder full."