Chunks of Eternity

It is said that, whenever we stay still, immersed in ourselves with our minds blank, we are experiencing little moments of eternity.

In Pompeii, it seems like catastrophe and nature made time to freeze allowing its people to remain eternal in their respective habitat. The baby that cries, the woman that cooks, the man praying for his life. Even the horses and the cats could remain in time providing information about their quotidian life and their quotidian places.

Since Pompeii has been preserved just as it was a second before the eruption of the Vesuvius, it tells how Romans planned their buildings and their homes. The city provides information about their architects creating an experience when entering each building, despite its typology. Going into the circus, a temple and even the baths, and to be in awe is understandable; it is expected. But entering a house with different elements in order to provoke perceptions, says how they were not only exposing the grandiosity of their culture and their time but their grandiose creativity of thought for space design?

The purpose of the question mark is to recall that romans were a multicultural empire, and this is also told in its architecture. Interesting to think about all that grandiosity as many elements in their buildings were taken from the Greeks (and possibly many other cultures).