The Man of Light in Maryhill

As for the sunworld, it is to be reached in the north, through searching for the self.

Prashna Upanishad


Little did I know that 'north' would refer to Maryhill...

Go back in yourself and look: if you do not see yourself as beautiful, then do as the sculptor... he chisels away one part, and levels off another, makes one spot smooth and another clear, until he shows forth a beautiful face on the statue. Like him, remove what is superfluous, straighten what is crooked, clean up what is dark and make it bright, and never stop sculpting your own statue, until this godlike splendor of virtue shines forth to you... If you have become this, and seen it, and become pure and alone with yourself, with nothing now preventing you from becoming one in this way, and have nothing extraneous mixed within yourself... if you see that this is what you have become, then you have become vision. Be confident in yourself: you have already ascended here and now, and no longer need someone to show you the way. Open your eyes and see.  (I 6, 9, 7-24)

Bit by bit, the material sculpture conforms itself to the sculptor's vision. When, however, sculptor and statue are one - when they are both one and the same soul - soon the statue is nothing other than vision itself, and beauty is nothing more than a state of complete simplicity and pure light.

[Pierre Hadot, Plotinus or The Simplicity of Vision, translated by Michael Chase]

[Sculpture is in West of Scotland Science Park, Maryhill Road]