I like to visit this small bronze, which can usually be found on display in the ambulatory on the Museum’s third floor along with other small modern and contemporary sculptures. The form is so complex, it’s hard to get a fixed idea in your head about its actual shape and how it was cast. Like a work of sixteenth-century Mannerist sculpture, the shapes and views change, infinitely, as you walk around the piece and take it in from every angle. It’s a little piece, not much more than 20 inches high, but I see something monumental in it, and I find its exploration of movement and space, especially within the context of the Hirshhorn’s own unique, ring-shaped galleries, exciting.

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