Sunday Firesides: Step Back From the Canvas

Growing up, did you ever do one of those puzzles where you were shown a hyper-zoomed-in photo of some object or animal and had to guess what it was?

It could be hard to recognize what you were looking at until you flipped to the zoomed-out answer. “Oh, it’s a butterfly.”

Those ultra-close-up photos represent well the perspective we typically have on our o…