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Olympic Chrysalis Monument Athens2004-Beirut2012

Poly Kasda's Olympic Chrysalis monument 2004, which hosted the Olympic Flame in Floisvos Park, Athens.  Photo by D. Sacquegna 30/7/12

"In Greek, the Olympic Games are called Agones which means Agony, or, 'I am 'striving towards Being' and this is why the champions were venerated as Immortals. 
The Olympic Chrysalis is a logocentric monument reminding us that the Olympic Games are not 'games' of survival, but, expressions of the Agony of trespassing, like the Chrysalis, the instinct of 
survival itself. It is both a tomb and a womb".(P. Kasda, conference of the Beijing Biennale 2008)

-The form of the cup was generated by the numerical modelling of the Greek word ΧΡΥΣΑΛΛΙΣ
 
British Embassy of Beirut, 2012