The Guardians by Julia Duato

The Guardians by Julia Duato

               A splendid pair of birds hang in the ceiling of the MoCA’s gigantic building. The Phoenixes. Each almost 100 feet long and nearly 12 tons each are clearly the most impressing thing you are going to find in the museum. As you walk in the enormous room where the phoenixes are located, giant wood cases is the first thing you can see, which adds a glimpse of intrigue and mystery to the whole situation. As you keep walking the two enormous, ferocious, gnarly birds with heads made from industrial metals and plastics, and feathers made of fabric and wires appear to your view as two immense nonsense structures for the first thirty seconds, and then the image of the two glorious Phoenixes appears in your mind both similar in size, structure, and colors. As you look closer and closer all the little details like the different materials and structures pop to your eyes. Both creatures ugly and magnificent at once, catch your eye from any angle or direction you are looking. From the back the shiny LED lights make them look like if they had come from out the space. From the front the two majestic phoenixes seems guardians of a kingdom, or a door to another world like in the movie The NeverEnding Story making you feel as small as an ant.