Marble Sirens of Poseidon - Print Options

"Come hither, as thou farest, renowned Odysseus, great glory of the Achaeans; stay thy ship that thou mayest listen to the voice of us two."
— Homer, Odyssey XII

Three figures inhabit the ruins of the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, each staged at a different distance and a different register of address. One stands lit atop a fallen drum, fabric snapping like a flag in the wind off the Aegean. One turns into shadow against a column, seen only from behind. One sits low among the broken stones in the foreground, watching. Together they read less as three separate figures than as one voice heard at three distances — which is exactly how Homer describes the Sirens' danger: not a shout, but a call that only grows clearer the closer a sailor lets his ship drift. The temple's actual colonnade, still standing after twenty-five centuries on its cliff above the sea lanes, supplies the vertical rhythm the composition is built on; the sky above it is streaked cirrus, combed out by the same wind that has always found this headland. Shot in black and white, the marble and the cloud share one tonal range, so stone and sky read as a single ambiguous surface — solid ground that might, at the right distance, be mistaken for song.

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