Black Girl Blue World on Instagram: "“Head of a Female Statue” 2nd Century AD, National Archeological Museum of Athens The caption on the museum label: “A marble copy of a gold-and-ivory statue of the Classical period (5th–4th cent. BC). It represents a goddess, perhaps Aphrodite. The colour that has leaked below her eyes is a product of the oxidation of the statue’s bronze eyelashes.” I was on my way out of the museum to catch a flight and tried to rush down this last hallway but she stopped me

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S A J I D ヅ on Instagram: "This statue is called “Endless Flow of Tears”—stands at the Comfort Women Museum in Nanjing, built on the site of the Lijixiang “Comfort Stations.”  She represents a former comfort woman, forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during the Nanjing Massacre period (1937-38).  Water drips from her eyes, and visitors are invited to wipe away those tears—symbolic of both grief and the act of witnessing / remembering.  The museum’s design uses “tears” as a rec