This is so incredibly well written and gripping, thank you for this deeply profound and ever-relevant history lesson on a concept that I hadn’t heard of before. I can’t wait to read more of your wonderful pieces of writing <3
Thank you for another fascinating piece! It's so interesting to think about what these images and monuments mean when removed from their own context. The blank walls of ancient Egyptian tombs, the headless bodies of mutilated Buddhas, the empty pediments of ancient Greek temples, were the result of another kind of iconoclasm. But the paradox is that this destruction was done with the aim of preservation. These Buddha heads and Egyptian tomb paintings were brought, by colonizers, to the west, to fill the halls of museums and the palaces of wealthy aristocrats. But rather than preserving a cultural identity, they have destroyed and adulterated it.
The idea of an image, representation, itself, can be very limiting, can shape our thoughts and even beliefs for the ones that have it. In religion it's comprehensive that iconoclasts transformed the ways of thinking for a vast group of people, because to hold your hope and habits by the feet of an image can be redundant, nothing will be really felt if the sight of what belief looks like keeps hunting your mind. In politics, images hold memories, and nothing really lasts but the rage, the scars: a constant record of what happened. In social connections, representation holds influence, and we always get tired at some point. I think we all break the murals from time to time, and that is an awesome perspective you wrote down in the article, truly.
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This is so incredibly well written and gripping, thank you for this deeply profound and ever-relevant history lesson on a concept that I hadn’t heard of before. I can’t wait to read more of your wonderful pieces of writing <3
thank you so so much!!!
Thank you for another fascinating piece! It's so interesting to think about what these images and monuments mean when removed from their own context. The blank walls of ancient Egyptian tombs, the headless bodies of mutilated Buddhas, the empty pediments of ancient Greek temples, were the result of another kind of iconoclasm. But the paradox is that this destruction was done with the aim of preservation. These Buddha heads and Egyptian tomb paintings were brought, by colonizers, to the west, to fill the halls of museums and the palaces of wealthy aristocrats. But rather than preserving a cultural identity, they have destroyed and adulterated it.
The idea of an image, representation, itself, can be very limiting, can shape our thoughts and even beliefs for the ones that have it. In religion it's comprehensive that iconoclasts transformed the ways of thinking for a vast group of people, because to hold your hope and habits by the feet of an image can be redundant, nothing will be really felt if the sight of what belief looks like keeps hunting your mind. In politics, images hold memories, and nothing really lasts but the rage, the scars: a constant record of what happened. In social connections, representation holds influence, and we always get tired at some point. I think we all break the murals from time to time, and that is an awesome perspective you wrote down in the article, truly.
We as humans always wanted to fill the void ,because we couldn't bare the thought of unanswered mysteries.