On slow days like today I find myself thinking back to things I saw these past months that I didn’t get to share  on the blog. I was browsing through some pictures from the last few months and came across this one that I took in the Agrigento Archaeological Museum (Sicily). It’s a detail of a Greek vase from the 5th century BCE that shows Perseus, who has already slain the marine serpent who is about to devour the maiden Andromeda. He pauses for a moment, puts a foot up onto a rock, places his elbow on his knee and briefly regards the beautiful woman chained to a rock, as if mesmerized by her loveliness. The profile is so economically rendered, as are his robes. His hair falls in black ringlets. It’s strange to see the calmness of it, the moment of stillness and contemplation. Perseus, a real hero, makes it all seem easy; all in a day’s work. The orange bits are where the white paint of the vase has been chipped, revealing the terra cotta underneath.