Atelier Missor

After months of hard work, we’re proud to unveil the statue we’ll build to honor the 250th anniversary of the United States. The Guardian of Liberty. What you see here is just the scale model. The real one will be gigantic, the tallest statue in the West. So many people have offered to fund it, but the real challenge will be getting visas so we can build it on American soil. Finishing it in less than a year won’t be easy… but as Napoleon once said, “Impossible is not French!”

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For one statue destroyed, we will craft ten more.

We are entering the Age of Prometheus.

Obviously, the Greco-Romans and Christians will hold a central place in our fresco; we didn’t write about them in order to stay brief and gather ideas. Everything we are sculpting now is about them…

Our dream is to build a great wall, with a gigantic fresco carved into it depicting the epic of mankind. This is the chronology. Akhenaten Homer Pythagoras Plato Alexander the Great Jesus Christ Johannes Gutenberg Leonardo da Vinci Giordano Bruno Louis XIV Isaac Newton Benjamin Franklin George Washington Napoleon Bonaparte Jules Verne Gustave Eiffel Michael Faraday Charles Darwin Ludwig Boltzmann Nikola Tesla Max Planck Albert Einstein John von Neumann Alan Turing Isaac Asimov Wernher von Braun Freeman Dyson Nikolai Kardashev

It needs two gigantic sphinxes at the entrance.

This will be the first Prometheus of many. Gigantic statues are gonna be everywhere!

50-ft Prometheus, soon to be shipped to the USA.

Egypt was stuck in a loop for thousands of years. The high priests imposed upon the masses a cyclical religion to keep everything in order. Then the Pharaoh Akhenaten came along and fought for the truth, the cult of the sun. The high priests were no longer needed; anyone could simply look up and see the source of all life, of all energy. He died young, probably killed by the high priests of Amon. All memory of his existence was erased. He was one of the first known cases of damnatio memoriae, and Egypt went back to cyclical polytheism. The great journey of Man toward the Sun, toward energy, is a constant fight against high priests who hijack the religious function of Man. We were not meant to follow strict tradition and live little lives. We were meant to be fascinated by light, by fire, by the sun, by pure energy. We were meant to harness it and go after greatness. The greatest obstacle between Man and greatness is the eternal caste of high priest. They exist today; they are bureaucrats who try to convince the youth that Man is a disease on the surface of the globe.

Akhenaten, the first Prometheus. He may be the most ancient father of the spirit of the West, the instigator of humanity’s great journey toward the sun.

This is the Prometheus statue we intend to build everywhere across the West.

A new Colossus of Rhodes for a new Golden Age. Where should we build it?

Rebuilding a 1,000-foot Colossus of Rhodes would cost around $80 million.

We are the most Bronze Age entity in the world today.

Everything we do, we do to give hope to the young people of France.

Elon Musk loves France.

We discovered that Napoleon’s soldiers themselves, to find courage, called one another Hector or Leonidas and named their sons Achilles.

We are going to rebuild the Colossus of Rhodes. Our civilization deserves it, at the moment we start worshipping the sun again.

In my most radical days, I thought that if you were able to beat the rhythm of music with your feet, then it was music that destroyed civilization. Only melody would truly connect you to a conception of time with a past and a future. Classical music would make you travel through melancholia (the past) and hope (the future), unlike animalistic rhythm, which would just keep you stuck in the present moment, debilitating you. The philosophy of the “now,” which has done so much harm to the West. People would escape suffering by being “present in the moment”… Why escape suffering? We were made to endure, and to do great things. Maybe since we stopped listening to classical music, it has been the start of our decline… People underestimate the impact of music. Through smell and taste, you detect chemicals. But through touch and hearing, you detect vibrations of matter. Being touched by a melody is literally being touched by the fundamental Platonic truth and beauty of existence. Being loved by a human is something. But listening to classical music is like being loved by reality itself. Well, I thought that in my most radical days. Now I’m getting old.

On the west façade of the Louvre, facing the sunset, (symbolically toward the future ) there is a bas-relief of a rooster triumphing over an ouroboros. It represents the victory of the linear conception of time over the cyclical one. Architects two centuries ago are trying to send us a message.