"Standing before one of Julie Mehretu’s monumental paintings often reminds me of gazing across an expanse—perhaps overlooking the skyline of a city or seeing a mountain range from one of its peaks. The overwhelming desire to take a photo—to try to capture the view—is immediately thwarted by a certainty that the photo would fail to capture that very expansiveness in all its minute detail. The act of looking on such a grand scale, combined with the embodied knowledge of how a place feels to witness, creates a sensation of awe, of confronting the uncapturable captured within immensity. Such sensations are given form and content in Mehretu’s paintings."