'Löwenmensch' Limited Edition Silk Twill Scarf 50 x 100cm
ALISON CONNEELY X UNFPA
Isabel Nolan - Löwenmensch
In response to transformation & Unity.
38,000 BCE to today
This image is drawn from the Löwenmensch (the Lion-human). Carved from a mammoth tusk around 40,000 years ago, this mysterious object has the head and forelimbs of a cave lion, and the legs and torso of a human. Lionhuman was reborn over decades, discovered in shards 1939 and subsequently reassembled by archaeologists several times into the belly buttoned creature that seems to greet us with a crooked smile today. Lionhuman joins animal and human; unites the earth and the sky, the real and the imaginary, the past and the present. They declare that the world is not merely what it appears to be. I imagine the Paleolithic sculptor(s) carrying it from place to place, cradling their creation, showing everyone they met the capacity for beautiful transformation that work and imagination gifts our species.
ALISON CONNEELY X UNFPA
Isabel Nolan - Löwenmensch
In response to transformation & Unity.
38,000 BCE to today
This image is drawn from the Löwenmensch (the Lion-human). Carved from a mammoth tusk around 40,000 years ago, this mysterious object has the head and forelimbs of a cave lion, and the legs and torso of a human. Lionhuman was reborn over decades, discovered in shards 1939 and subsequently reassembled by archaeologists several times into the belly buttoned creature that seems to greet us with a crooked smile today. Lionhuman joins animal and human; unites the earth and the sky, the real and the imaginary, the past and the present. They declare that the world is not merely what it appears to be. I imagine the Paleolithic sculptor(s) carrying it from place to place, cradling their creation, showing everyone they met the capacity for beautiful transformation that work and imagination gifts our species.
ALISON CONNEELY X UNFPA
Isabel Nolan - Löwenmensch
In response to transformation & Unity.
38,000 BCE to today
This image is drawn from the Löwenmensch (the Lion-human). Carved from a mammoth tusk around 40,000 years ago, this mysterious object has the head and forelimbs of a cave lion, and the legs and torso of a human. Lionhuman was reborn over decades, discovered in shards 1939 and subsequently reassembled by archaeologists several times into the belly buttoned creature that seems to greet us with a crooked smile today. Lionhuman joins animal and human; unites the earth and the sky, the real and the imaginary, the past and the present. They declare that the world is not merely what it appears to be. I imagine the Paleolithic sculptor(s) carrying it from place to place, cradling their creation, showing everyone they met the capacity for beautiful transformation that work and imagination gifts our species.