Narcissus

Alexander Shappo
20700,00
BYN
Alexander Shappo
Bronze, granite. 22 × 19, h=68.

According to the ancient Greek legend, a beautiful self-obsessed young man turned into a daffodil. The sculpture demonstrates this permanent transformation of human ego, the personalization of a conscious choice — to remain human or to become a reflection of oneself, a delightful picture, devoid of soul. The two mirrors, in which the young man looks, reveling in one reflection and rejecting the other, demonstrate the duality of the narcissistic principle inherent in each of us. Falling into pride, then into despair, a person maintains a fragile balance, an objective vision of the world and one’s place in it. Moreover, like the two-faced Janus, each time we create our own destiny, choosing one or another reflection, reality, path.