Not far from the great classical city of Miletus, stands Didyma, home to the most renowned oracle of the Hellenic world. Started about 300BC, the oracle’s temple was to have been the largest in the world. It was never finished, although its oracle and priests practiced soothsaying here for another 1,400 years. When Christianity became the state religion of the Byzantines, it brought an end to such pagan practices. Today, the temple is a massive ruin. I found its most striking feature to be this huge head of Medusa, which was originally placed at the top of the temple to ward off evil spirits. It crashed to earth during an earthquake, and today stares out at us through eyes that are as dead as those that once sculpted them. I confront the viewer with the wear and tear of the passing years, details that echo a turbulent past stretching from the time of Alexander the Great to the origins of Christianity.