Igor Mitoraj
In: Time Machine: Anciet Egypt and Contemporary Art. Edited by James Putnam and W. Vivian Davies. Published by the Trustees of the British Museum and the Institute of International Visual Arts, 1994, p. 22.
While making my sculpture for this exhibition I felt lost like a grain of sand in the desert of Egypt. What do the immense eyes of the statues see, looking inside their soul and gazing for centuries at their shadows in the light of the sun and the moon?
How is it possible to describe the magnetic force that this ancient civilisation releases? I have tried to convey a fraction of what seems to be a mystical communication between Egypt, Greece and the Far East - an extremely difficult task and practically impossible. Art is the real time machine, that allows us to approach so far a shore.