Went to the Via Celmins show at the Met Breuer. I was familiar with her images of water images (detail of one from 1973 below) and star-filled sky, though I'd not spent time trying to understand how she achieved 
them with oils or with graphite. Making you look closely is what she's all about, and part of what you find yourself seeing is her own looking and her slightly maniacal dedication to replicating it in art. The exhibition borrows the name of "To fix the image in memory" (1977-82), below. She'd picked up a series of stones over the years in the Southwest, one day realizing all had starscapes in them, further realized they could be assembled as a constellation of their own - and then had a friend 
cast bronze replicas which she then lovingly painted to look like the originals. As you inspect them trying to determine which is which (only the tiny crystals give away the originals) - what is it you're seeing?
them with oils or with graphite. Making you look closely is what she's all about, and part of what you find yourself seeing is her own looking and her slightly maniacal dedication to replicating it in art. The exhibition borrows the name of "To fix the image in memory" (1977-82), below. She'd picked up a series of stones over the years in the Southwest, one day realizing all had starscapes in them, further realized they could be assembled as a constellation of their own - and then had a friend 
cast bronze replicas which she then lovingly painted to look like the originals. As you inspect them trying to determine which is which (only the tiny crystals give away the originals) - what is it you're seeing?