Sculpture Gallery

A quote from one of my Favorite Essays: "Many of the artifacts that find their way into our museums and private collections once belonged to that world in which beauty was not an isoloated and autonomous value. Society was divided into two great realms, the profane and the sacred. In both beauty was a subordinate quality: in the realm of the profane, it was dependent upon an object's usefulness, and in the realm of the sacred it was dependent upon the object's magic power. A utensil, a talisman, a symbol; beauty was the aura surrounding the object, the result-almost invariably an unintentional one-of the secret relation between its form and its meaning; the purpose for which it is made." Octavio PAZ, from the essay "Use and Contemplation"