Walking towards the sunset, around the bay of Parikia, I came across this outcrop of weathered marble.
Jutting out into the Agean, topped by a traditional Cycladic windmill, it caught the light in a way that seemed lit from within. This luminosity is a feature of Parian marble, a quality that made it highly sort after through out antiquity. Parian marble has been used to create the Medici Venus, the Venus de Milo, and the Winged Victory of Samothrace.
Here the marble is weathered; fractures and pitting have sculpted it into a landscape of varied textures. This weathering is determined by the properties of calcite, the grain size and mineral form.
