I have driven past the Winsome building in WoodinvilleWoodinville, Washington many times, admiring the monumental art facing the street. Perhaps the observed figures represent a pair from the Ashtadiggajas (अष्टदिग्गज) or are a votive offering. Their employment symbolizes wisdom and strength, yet one pauses to think of the home of Gavroche¹ when contemplating fabrications of Behemoth of such scale. This majestic statuary, however designed to be perdurable, exists in an age of impermanent care, so today as I was rumbling past in my own bit of mechanical art, I decided to pose it for a picture as a memento of beautiful things.

  • There it stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten palisade, soiled continually by drunken coachmen […] , Les Misérables (1862)