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24-SEP-2009

Rotunda, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada, 2009

This elaborate art deco Byzantine-inspired rotunda was added to the museum in 1933, and recently restored. I photographed two visitors studying the complex mosaic ceiling above them – their faces seem etched in awe. I made this image from a balcony near the top of the rotunda’s ceiling, and linked the opposing curves of the mosaic and the arch over a viewing gallery.

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Phil Douglis21-Nov-2009 00:24
You are right -- the arch does reach skyward, just as the eyes of the people here. Perhaps that is why arches have always been used as a symbol of triumph -- almost a heavenly reward.
Tim May20-Nov-2009 22:33
There is an interplay here of the arches and the eyes. I never thought of how the arch, as an architectural feature, leads the eyes heaven-ward.
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