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February 11th, 2016 Posted by freewaves Lion Responses No Comment yetIt is an alien figure. there’s no lions in America.
It is an alien figure. there’s no lions in America.
They are exotic because they are African, and they are also exotic because they are an extraordinary thing, they are beautiful.
They are by definition, one of the most exotic animals of all of society, because of their power.
Sound conveys a whole different message than visuals, than an image.
It’s enforcing to understand the power of sound.
Architectural eclecticism that allows itself to incorporate lions to where the lions do make sense. They fit in to the architectural diversity of this site.
It’s this idea of creating a sublime nature within the city.
It is not that we are all seeing the same lion with the same body, we were given the face and we are meant to visualize the body ourselves.
It is the faces of the building, rather than showing the entire lion which is separate from the building.
In China it means protection, and it might have been a symbol of social class in the past.