Personages 

Wolfgang Paalen's "Personages" presents us with three columns, built from an assemblage of painted blocks, standing like silent monoliths on an earthen ground. These shapes evoke the ancient practice of stacking stones, a symbol of permanence, of constructing a bridge across time. Consider, then, the Tower of Babel, a story of human ambition reaching skyward, only to be scattered into a multitude of tongues. Paalen's columns mirror this striving, yet also the fragmentation. The act of construction becomes a metaphor for memory itself—layered, imperfect, subject to the whims of time and interpretation. These columns remind us that even in abstraction, the echo of the human endeavor persists. The urge to build, to leave a mark, is etched into our collective consciousness, resurfacing in forms both familiar and strange.