Grande Caryatide

Elder sister to the Caryatide, the Grande Caryatide pushes further the bearing figure of antique architecture. Her body becomes an arrow, her face borrows the features of an animal: a talisman-statue, at once protective and enigmatic. Three bronze arms rise toward the ceiling to support the screen, the casting keeping its vein beneath the patina. The light rests on this support like a load borne at arm's length: it climbs behind the stretched veil, descends toward the bronze, and the arrow-body stands out in shadow.