![]() ![]() Marble decorates modern homes as a covetable and expensive form of interior design, commercialised and democratised, mined on an industrial scale. Dictators built their palaces from marble which outlasted their rule and now disappear gradually into the ground, literally sinking beneath the weight of their own ambition. Marble has long been used to display political power and wealth. On a visit to a marble-bearing Greek island in the Aegean Sea, she considers its enduring nature, itself brought about after a period of great pressure. In her essay of the same name, Marble in Metamorphosis, Rachel Cusk explores the meaning of marble in different cultures. It is also a narrative of sorts, a story of time, though one with neither protagonist nor author – a very impartial kind of witness, this piece of marble, that is being given an opportunity to testify. ![]() It is separated from the process of its own becoming and can stand apart. The piece of marble is no more a painting than nature itself is a painting, yet like a painting it speaks for itself: it is complete. ![]()
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