Lambda, lambda, lambda.-

Art in Greece sprouted around twentyfive, hundred years before our friend Christ was even born; having it's roots during the Bronze Age in the Cycladic and Minoan civilizations. The latests, originated around the famouse island of Crete and stuck around for a whole millenia. Not much can be rescued from this brave merchantil art, for most of it was made out of copper and wood that quickly desintegrated back to mother earth. Luckily for us, they also excelled (as far as we can know) in the ancient art of pottery... yes, art I said.
I know pots throughout time have only had one meaning in life, that to carry stuff, and that their existance is to the pure cause of satisfying a need and creating a solution, then, why art?
Wasn’t art supposed to create problems rather than solutions?

Well, it happens so that this ceramic vaces, are so exquisite in their design, that they overkill whatever any other civilization could’ve accomplished on such a complicated era. More so, they work as a microcosm of modern art... yes, I said it...

Starting with simple figures, depicting historical scenes, then; spirals and triangles. Before we know it, reniassance kicks and pots tend to become more naturalistic. We then follow the common trends and vases become cans and all we see are monochromatic colours...

But... what legacy did Minoan’s leave us?

Well, the legacy of symbolism and tracendency. Maybe you’ve heard here or there about the Labrys, a golden two-hexed axe but can’t quite aciociate it with ancient times and minotaurs, no; just like the black triangle all this shape brings to your head is that of Lesbians.
In fact, Minoans have created a good deal of imagery and symbolism to the weomans homosexual movement. Sappho, a female writter born in the Island of Lesbos wrote a series of poems expressing passionate love towards other woman, hence the meaning of the word Lesbian, which derived from this Islands own name.

Throughout time, human culture tends to revive ancient objects to give them a new meaning and purpose, and this is what really matters in art, the abilitty of it to be transcendable. The abillity to be dug up thousands of years later and still have a meaning for people, still be able to place paradigms in question and arise new problematics to be discussed. Who could have ever thought in ancient greek that the lower case letter Lambda would be taken by Gay Activists in the 70s’ to fight for the rights of those who, at that time, weren’t even an issue?

People evolve, civilizations move on and culture changes... but art... art remains the same.