Artist and shaman Matthew Stone has claimed his own corner of Neoclassicism. Stone’s Body Language series and Staging Reality series presents a tangled and tortured display of the human anatomy.
![losing its fluidity the rope we were to use to climb to heaven became a golden noose taut around our necks_2009_printversion](https://quietlunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/losing-its-fluidity-the-rope-we-were-to-use-to-climb-to-heaven-became-a-golden-noose-taut-around-our-necks_2009_printversion-e1346251948997.jpg)
“Losing Its Fluidity the Rope We Were to Use to Climb to Heaven Became a Golden Noose Taut Around Our Necks” – Staging Reality. (Courtesy of Matthew Stone.)
![](https://www.quietlunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/QL-logo-2014.jpg)
Quiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance Daily,” we mean it.