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How is your balance these days? I'm asking only because I'm about to take you out on a limb--and who knows how many of us have learned to walk on a tightrope unafraid, arms spread wide; how to fall without getting hurt; and how to lift off and take flight? (Impossible, you say?

Michael Fallon on Anastylosis: Drawings by Mary Griep, at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Mary Griep's work begins with wishfulness. The title of this exhibition, "Anastylosis," is a reconstruction technique in which a ruined archeological monument is restored after careful study, using original architectural elements whenever possible as well as supposition and guesswork when necessary. No matter how rigorous the study, errors in reconstruction are inevitable and original components will be damaged.