Wednesday 13 February 2008

Archetype


Saturday at Dusk
The sun had just set
when I spotted this skateboarder.
Somehow, he looked familiar.
It was his posture,
with an undercurrent of defiance,
that mesmerized me.

Hadn't I met him,
at the opposite corner of the temple,
only moments before?

Temple of Theseus
"The Winner"
1922 Bronze sculpture by Josef Müllner

Ancestral memory
preserved in the unconscious
?
Dr. Jung!
?

8 comments:

  1. What a defiant fellow that skateboarder is!
    Just come over from Simons. Isn't that snake wonderful!

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  2. Could be that it was an actor, and his posture was deliberate. There was a film crew there, maybe from a film school here.

    Oh yes, the snake, very sweet, as I said, reminds me of myself before the first cup of tea in the morning. ;-)

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  3. excellent constructions

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  4. Brilliant Merisi!!

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  5. Thank you both, Evlahos and Bridget!

    It took me until now to realize that "The Winner" actually's standing on a skateboard too! :-))) Give him a hooded sweater, and he skates right into this century!

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  6. Huhu,Merisi,I hope you don't want to do the contrary!!!

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  7. Sorry, I made a mistake,not the "contrary"(faulse-friend for french) but the "opposite"!

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  8. I'll definitively side with Dr. Jung. excellent study in timelessness. A true classic , my dear!

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