In most of the works Anne Shingleton goes beyond the limits of visual expectations, particularly in bronze works, a material that has always had a great history, as it was used to represent proud lions or majestic horses. But she likes to choose smaller and lesser known animals, and instead of making portraits, an operation that would be a challenge in itself, she likes to create a story behind each piece, but above all add a playful look like in this replica.
This complex sculpture consists of 116 separate elements and is known by different names. The Parcae to the Romans, the Moire to the Greeks, the Three Fates in general parlance, out of the primordial Chaos they spin each mortal's thread of life, measure it for the alloted lenght, and cut it. Clotho spins, Lachesis measures, Atropos snips...the dead pieces are reabsorbed by Chaos and will re-emerge as new threads. They are thought by some to be primordial sybils, hooded and shrouded, unimaginably ancient, older even than Chaos itself.
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