Earrings with zoomorphous figures

Artefacts from the Nariño High Plains are fascinating, from an artistic viewpoint. Nose rings explore an art that is non-figurative, abstract, and which plays with geometry, with opposites like full and empty, and with movable pieces that make sounds and sparkle and twinkle in the light. The disks that hung from a cord and rotated were a forerunner, ten centuries ago, of kinetic art. In the abstract birds with forked tails, perhaps frigate birds, the proportions of the human figure as drawn by Leonardo Da Vinci can be sensed. Nariño art equally insists on the qualities of equilibrium and perfection that symmetry provides.

It is therefore surprising to find two asymmetrical earrings with three monkeys on top of them who never stop jumping and turning, playing with rhythm and almost with music, to create the illusion of movement. EL