History’s Shadows

History’s Shadows
History’s shadows is a project with great interest and resonance in several sociological and anthropological sciences as history, art and civilization. Here art is used as medium and for one more time succeeds to make us feel awe in front of the human evolution. The artist David Maisel photographed several x-rays of ancient sculptures and pottery from two big civilizations of human history, the Roman and the Chinese.
Someone could say that these x-rays are not art and in the first place were made to observe technical details. But I believe the idea that lays behind the exposure of these x-rays as pieces of art succeeds to set us able to see beyond the obvious results of the original objects, it set us able to see in side and through them, directly to the artist soul. Also it travel us back in time (which is basic idea of photography) and stimulate our imagination. The artist him self see these photographs as expressions of the artists and artisans who created the original objects centuries ago, he releases the messages that stayed unchanged with the completion of the centuries. And in the end he wonders what are the lessons that these ancient civilizations have to teach us for our current position as Humanity