I feel an ancient anger welling up in me.
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[At Menegroth] Carven figures of beasts and birds there ran upon the walls, or climbed upon the pillars, or peered among the branches entwined with many flowers. ~ The Silmarillion, Of the Sindar. (Artwork: Ra Paulette’s carving of New Mexico’s sandstone caves) http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-cave-digger-hewing-art-from-the-very-landscape/
Horseman’s parade mace, with agate hilt and head, 15th century.
from the Royal Collection Trust
Mace from Gondor
this makes me want to cry
First of all, “…they were surrounded on all sides by echoes and images of themselves, in a world where image and object had not yet torn themselves apart” is one of the most poetic phrasings I’ve ever heard.
Second, here’s the original source, “What the caves are trying to tell us” by Sam Kriss.
Third, the original opens with: “Every so often, I get the urge to drag someone into a cave, and show them something unspeakable.”
I had another point, but it got lost in the artful prose of this article.
I feel like “every so often, I get the urge to drag someone into a cave and show them something unspeakable” is something that’s okay for a paleolithic cave art expert to say, but like, absolutely no one else
Capital, The Cloisters
Medium: Stone
The Cloisters Collection, 1925
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY