The Circle of Circles

Last year (three weeks ago) I visited the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) Niteroi (in Rio de Janeiro / Brazil). The curators' attempt was to establish a parallel between the Greek Gods and the Orixas (Divinities) in the Brazilian's Candomble (a religious syncretism between African and Catholic faiths).

The exhibit was primarily a set of marble statues from the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Although a lot can be said about Religion and Gods and Greek Arts, I will focus on the paradigm of statue recovering. Why were some statues fully recovered, while others remained missing noses, arms, legs and so forth?

One museum staff told me that, depending on when the statues were discovered, different approaches were taken. Funny enough, at one time it's cool to add everything back (from ears to fingers) whereas at another it's fashion to let it be as found.

The Deviant Advantage tells us about that march of beliefs from the fringe to mainstream society.( Someone has just been hanged to remind us of that.)

Is history a circle? Is the End of History the perception of it? Will we be considering history as the Native Indians did?

I have a theory of mine that, presumptuously, lays eyes on that matter. I call it the Circle of Circles. Perhaps we will have time to draw some lines about it. Or I will just figure out that it has already been said by someone else (and I'll let you know).

Carpe Diem,