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Through your eyes you see the world…do you choose to look for beauty?

The Titan Prometheus and his brother had made figures from clay to populate the earth. In recompense to Prometheus for removing a headache, Zeus, breathed life into these clay figures. Thus Prometheus is credited for the creation of man as this was the image he had crafted (based on the images of the gods).

Zeus, angered by Prometheus, decided to keep the secret of ‘fire’ from Man. Prometheus seeing his creations cold and shivering stole fire from the hearth of the Gods and gave it to man.

In Rockerfeller Centre there is a golden statue of Prometheus carrying fire to enlighten Man.

Opposite to the statue, I saw this person sitting on a Thursday afternoon. Passersby reacted with anger and shock and at times good humour. A child with his mother buried his face into her leg as they walked quickly by, trying really hard not to see what was sitting in front of them. Another boy, not so shy, spotted the curious figure and shouted to his mother, “Mom, what’s that?”, the mother came from behind the hedge, looked, turned to the boy and said in a relaxed response “…that’s just someone sitting enjoying the sun honey”.

Enlightenment?