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Conducting The Stars In Agrigento

John Elkington · 28 September 2018 · Leave a Comment

‘The Man Who Conducts The Stars’ – by Jan Fabre
Fallen angel: Icaro/Icarus

Closer

Closer still
A fossilised shell, like a wing, in earthquake-resistant masonry
Sunburst
Fallen giant, once one of a line of atlases serving as load-bearing columns
Security camera in harbour, near our hotel on the waterfront
Moon rising
Sun setting
Triskelion in Agrigento Museum – something I wrote about recently on Linked-In
Dalek-like amphorae
A face in the crowd
Spider-web-like suspension bridge in the Museum grounds
Acacia thorns

Spellbound by the Valley of the Temples yesterday, in Agrigento. Impressed by Jan Fabre’s statue ‘The Man Who Conducts The Stars’, though found him hard to find in any detail on the Internet.

Seeing wings everywhere, on fallen angel statues, in museum, and even in fossilised shells. Loved the statue of fallen Icaro/Icarus. But also way too much plastic and other debris, particularly around the harbour near the Hotel Dioscuri, where we are staying.

 

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I began this blog with an entry reporting on a visit to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, on 30 September 2003. The blog element of the website has gone through several iterations since, with much of the older material still available.

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