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A FAMILY IN HOODED PARKAS, AND A T. REX.Of course, there is the image of a T. Rex: in profile facing left, with its mouth straining wide open and its eye intent upon its prey. That is the harsh terror which this piece presents: and there is also immeasurable beauty here. It wasn't until after I had photographed this piece, oriented to display the T. Rex, that I noticed what makes this piece such an exceptional thing of beauty.The top, most heavily sculpted section of this piece presents an ancient family. They are dressed in the hooded clothes that protected them from the bitter cold of a glacial age. They face away from the T. Rex, perhaps fleeing from its immanent danger. The very top of this piece presents a man, who is looking straight ahead into the distance which they are traveling toward. Beside, slightly behind, and just a bit below him is a woman: her face still peers out from her parka's hood, tilted downward with love toward their child. This baby rests snuggly, in front of and between them, in a big, loose parka hood: warm and content, this child looks out into a world that has now moved thousands and thousands and thousands of years forward...to a world where people can still peek back in to admire how cute this little baby is; which is something that people still love to do, to this very day (and always will love to do, for as long as there are people and babies).
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