Soto’s lesson is that truth depends on perspective. What from here seems to be one thing might from there appear to be something else. To know the absolute truth of a given state of affairs would be God-like. But it is possible to see something from multiple directions. You can walk around it, and further certify its reality by touching and grabbing — if it’s the sort of thing that can be touched and grabbed. However uncertain one or another perspective may be, a lot of them tend to add up in memory to convincing pictures of reality. Yet even so, another observer’s points of view might add up differently.

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The Mechanics Behind Perspective by Ken Johnson

Exhibition: Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950-1970 

New York University’s Grey Art Gallery 

(Source: The New York Times)