There was something about these beautiful and strange ~ ancient like in appearance marble and crystalline works of artist @massimiliano_pelletti that reminded me of the ruins of Rome, and how much of its skeletons are believed to have been built by the marble of the buildings & statues that stood before it ~ an ancient form of ‘recycling’ that resurfaces in my memory / imagination like a little cut ~ “At the end of the of the 19th century the archaeologist Rodolfo Lanciani discovered a lime-kiln abandoned by lime-burners in a sudden hurry many centuries before. Inside stood eight Vestal Virgins ready to be burned, stashed ‘like a cord of wood, leaving as few interstices as possible between them, and spaces formed by the curves of the body filled in by marble chips.’ ~ from ‘In Ruins’ by Christopher Woodward