深想@TycheluvDT0819
Talking about the Olympics, though it’s quite different in scale to compare, I remember the Aichi Expo ’05 that was held in my home area. Ordinarily a remote corner with not many visitors even from nearby Nagoya, all of sudden it had huge number of people with different skin colors and different facial structures from all over the world and all mixed with each other waiting in line in front of the entrance gate. It was a very interesting sight. ^^
Another thing about Ai+Chikyu (love and earth) Expo, to me, is surely “Dancing Satyr of Mazara del Vallo/Satiro danzante”— First I was like, “getting stuck in a big crowd? no thank you...” and then, once I found the statue would be exhibited in the Italian Pavilion I suddenly had to go!
Today this “Dancing Satyr” is still one of my great favorite sculptures, but now I look at it, it reminds me Daisuke san, or rather, it’s no other way, I should wonder, “didn’t the artist just carve this figure watching Daisuke performing his layback spin?” (2000 years ago in Greece) (― ▽ ―)
The sculpture shows; Satyr, an attendant of Bacchus, the god of wine, ritual madness and ecstasy, that is, a nymph himself, rather than a god, has a staff in his right hand and an empty wine jar in the left (as estimated), kicks up his left leg high to the back, spins around the spine in a spiral motion (turns around an axis) offers his dance to gods intoxicated. In short, it’s a figure of him getting drunk, laughing and dancing turning round and round… What can I say? LOL