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fish-critters and rock mirrors
Dec. 3rd, 2008 09:19 pmI'm completely fascinated by the fish-critters found at a prehistoric dig site in Serbia, called Lepenski Vir. I'm dying to get my hands on one - a reproduction would do - but I haven't found any online. Not that it's particularly easy to Google for a paleolithic fish-person-rock from a site which translates into English with arguable spelling.
Some of them look quiet, some scared... I can't know what they were for, or whether they're supposed to show human emotion at all. That's just what I project on it. It, by itself, says nothing. It's a rockfishgoddess, unless it's not. Maybe it's a representation of a story. Maybe the little round mouths are supposed to look like fish, not like surprise or sadness or The Scream.
What I see in them tells me things about me. I like that. There's only two interpretations that matter, and we'll never know the first without a time machine.
Now: jasmine rice, dog food, bedtime.
Some of them look quiet, some scared... I can't know what they were for, or whether they're supposed to show human emotion at all. That's just what I project on it. It, by itself, says nothing. It's a rockfishgoddess, unless it's not. Maybe it's a representation of a story. Maybe the little round mouths are supposed to look like fish, not like surprise or sadness or The Scream.
What I see in them tells me things about me. I like that. There's only two interpretations that matter, and we'll never know the first without a time machine.
Now: jasmine rice, dog food, bedtime.
