It´s a glorious day in Mexico City. This particular Saturday, there are clouds over the city, as if the sky is scheming, trying to keep us on our toes...will it rain? Everyone is asking and looking up at the sky. I don´t think it will rain. I am calling the bluff. It´s just the sky trying to keep everyone´s eyes on it. Vanity, you ask. Well, maybe. But aren´t we all entitled to some vanity every now and then. In fact, we are each vain in our own individual ways. This just goes to show that even ¨el cielo¨ (the sky) has a right to want some extra attention now and then. So long as we maintain a balance, I am hopeful we can keep the sky from falling! For those of you interested in this sculpture, it is titled ¨Gimnasta II¨ and it is by Oshra Michan. The piece was donated to the Parque Lincoln in Colonia Polanco by P.C. Price S.A. de C.V. in October of 1997. This is the sort of balance I have in mind.
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You know, Edu, the Gaullois, the ancesters of the French, only had one fear: that the sky falls onto their head.
Tomu
Hola Tomu,
The relationship between humans and the sky is very mysterious. The ancient Nazca lines in Peru are just one of the many examples around the world that reveal an obsession, respect or fear for the sky and its objects. Whether you study the Mayans, the Incas, the Aztecs, the Egyptians, etc...you will find monuments, references and stories about astronomy, heavenly figures and their movements. In the end, maybe the Chicken Little story we all know is just an extension of a common fear among all of us, including your ancestors the Gaullois, that the sky because of its constant movement is a window of change we are still in the process of discovering and fully understanding. As a sidenote, I am incredibly fascinated by the Nazca culture´s principle that an eclipse is really the ¨Eye of God¨ looking at us...resembling the human eye with black center and rays of light around it. See this site for a visual comparison between an eclipse and the human eye: http://nazcalines.homestead.com/
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