I like this photograph. I think it looked better in the lens of my camera, when my eyes were strained from taking so many pictures of the sunset and the contrast seemed much greater, but I like the composition of color, blackness, and color again. It's not intended to be a complete reflection or anything purposeful, it's just a picture I took.
Aren't reflections fascinating, though? Visual representation of the existence of something else. Touring the museum today and seeing the sculptures really put new life into the stories of the Greek gods, for me. Seeing a representation, a marble reflection of Athena, encased in glass and protected as though she were fragile, made her seem all the more ferocious. You could almost get the impression that the glass wasn't to protect her from us, but to protect us from her. The statue of Athena is finished with armor and decoration and weapons, while the rest of the sculptures in the museum are missing limbs and chunks of their faces. The museum tells the story of war and destruction and leads down a hallway to this sculpture. The sculpture is on a pedestal and if you look right, your own face is reflected on the glass far below Athena's gaze. Everything in the museum points to Athena being one tough lady, above and aloof of the city she took for her own.
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