"Mommy says how the ancient Greek girl was in love with a young man. But the young man was from an other country and had to go back.
So the last night the girl and her lover would be together, the girl brought a lamp and set it so it threw the lover's shadow on the wall.
The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked, a document of this exact moment,
the last moment they would be together.
The next day the girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.
Before the Greeks, nobody had any art. This was how painting was invented.
She tells the story of how the girl's father used the outline on the wall to model a clay version of the young man,
and that's the way sculpture was invented.
For serious, the mommy told him, "Art never comes from happyness"
Here is where symbols were born."
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