Changing How You See the World
Mary Ennes-Davis admits publicly that she doesn’t know how to measure. There is a gentle irony to the fact that many of her works of art feature rulers. Though she grew up in a family of artists, Ennes-Davis pursued a marketing career, and had “little time to create with [her] hands.” But a sailing trip to the Soviet Union revised her course of direction: I saw a country lacking in many of the things that we take for granted. This changed how I saw the world, and rather than