Fluidr / alexander_stein_taech's "Washington, D.C." set

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Shiva Dancing the World Into Existence

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Washington D.C. Yesterday.

I went to D.C. to re-check the painting below and visit Arlington above. I stopped in at the Freer for the first time and was struck by this Chola dynasty bronze (around 10th c. I think). I had seen this in reproduction- its well known- but the firmly compressed eyes were what drew me to it in real life. Supposedly sculptors of that time studied dancing themselves in order to render that cosmic balance these works possess. This face had a rhythm of its own too, with one eye stressed at a rotated angle from the other as if the movements of Shiva's closed eyes were the agents of his intent.

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