Friday, June 11, 2010

Identified a sculpture for someone the other day. It was a Cycladic figure playing a double flute, dating to around 2500 BCE.

I have admired Cycladic figures for many years. I was first taken with them as a teenager when I saw one at the Met. They have some of the mystery of the Easter Island monoliths, but a greater delicacy of design. They seem to "stand-in" for humanity in a very potent way.

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