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Description: | Two free-standing blocks. Left: narrow base rising and forming a mushroom shaped top. The front has incisions/cuts across from the right, of unequal lengths. Back is more roughly hewn, perhaps not worked. Right: similar shape but top part forms two rounded shapes. Substance possibly poured down the middle which has caused some algae growth. Back has incisions/cuts from the left. Two Stones from one boulder (2) Located by the southern lake in Stockley Park East next to a building designed kby Foster Associates(2) Additional Information: Represents Isis and Osiris (among the most frequently represented deities of Egyptian Pantheon). Central myth is the destruction of Osiris by Tphon who casts him into the Nile in a sealed coffin, or dismembers his body and leaves it to float down the river. The self imposed task of Isis is tehn to wnder endlessly on search of fragments of the dismembered god.(1) How this myth relates to sculpture? Alludes to powerful myth of fragmentationand wholeness (1) | Subjects: | Sculpture | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Sculptor: Cox, Stephen | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=7152... | Go to resource |
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