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          The Rhine maidens occupy a space that is an amalgamation of lightness and darkness, a sphere of good and evil.  Is rescue possible?  To what, or to whom does one turn?  Entranced by the glimmer of the gold, but holding Wotan’s spear, a girl constructs a new story.  Hands, oversized hands—one of the artist’s trademarks—construct a tower.  It is an idol of her own making.  Mixing the elements of earth and water, she designs to know herself. But is she capable of shaping herself through an act of will?  Or must she rely on something or someone else to acquire true self-knowledge?

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