The Graven and the Brazen
Reflections on the Art of Nummist Sculpture
How many nine-lived generations of cats must have
idealized the stony flanks of that Great Sphynx of Egypt, only to
experience the greatest confusion, repulsion and dismay upon viewing its
ape-like face?
Whether we can say with authority that the evolution or
intelligent design of Nummist sculpture has stemmed from fertilizer of
rotten disappointments of ages past, it luminates that the art as it
contemporarily flourishes stands in stark contrast to any precursors.
To defer to the myriad-fold valuation ratio of the picture
to the word, let us consider the following:
We may note (while endeavouring to err, if we must err, by
presuming too little instead of too much) how the audience and object must
interact—or else be indistinguishable!
Thereof we must speak, whereof we cannot be silent. This
will be the subject of another installment.