Steven Brown ~ Besides All That

The Myths Collection Part Two - 1986 La Philosphie Du Portique. Leaving the Louvres on a sunny and solitary day, the expression of a statue invaded my sadness. The neck taut, slightly inclined, the muscles and veins bulging, the mouth half-open, not quite bitter, the eyes raised to the heavens in an expression of profoundly resigned suffering - the brow furrowed... humanity suffering; features carved in dark stone - visions of Lucius Annaeus Seneca recalling the principles of Zenon de Citium: sustine et abstine.