Its symbolism is manifold.
In Kubricks Space Odysee it is a companion in progress, perhaps the insight to it. You can see it as an irritation in our perception, a reminder of limitation. And there is also the resistance to meaning, a monolith is a monolith is a monolith.
Visually it is incomparably beautiful and full of charisma in its continuity and wholeness

Navette chain variation with different colored beads in white, orange and delicate rosé. the beads are connected by movable eyelets without closure

Just as every body finds beauty within its round forms, a beautiful mind needs corners and edges to complete/exist.

Just as every body finds beauty within its round forms, a tough mind needs corners and edges to complete/exist.

Looking at art I am always charmed by the depiction of nature motivs. I like the interpretation to reduce the motiv to his simplest form, telling the essentials. abstract art gives the oppurtunity to look at everything with the own eyes, it multiplies the possibilities to see something