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We're in the British Museum, and we're looking at one of the Caryatids from the Erechtheion from the Acropolis in Athens. That's a lot of information. And a Caryatid is a human figure acting as a column. She looks like a column. She does, her drapery falls in what almost looks like the fluting of a column, those vertical ridges. And because she stands in contrapposto with one weight bearing leg, which is the one that looks like a column, and one free leg so that the knee juts forward that drapery is allowed to fall completely free of the body below. This very subtle and very sensitively handled swayed her body, right? The contrapposto is not just in the legs, but even in the hips, which you can't actually see, because of all the cloth, but which were referred to. We have this nice circular form around her hips... Where the peplos just bunches. Right, that tunic that she's wearing, and t