I too am enjoying the exchange! One of the things I love about art and fiction is that that the viewer/reader brings their own creativity to the party! :D I love it when an image or story inspires different reactions in people and I love hearing what a given piece of art signifies to the individual! Thank you for sharing your interpretation of this with me! I can definitely imagine the mime is reacting in a negative way to the suburban sprawl and cheap housing all around him!

After reading your comment I did an image search for Orvieto and one of the main images that kept coming up was of the cathedral there. After reading up a little on that cathedral I was able to find some photographs of the sculptures you described. Right away those agonized expressions you mentioned jumped out at me! Scary stuff! I thought of posting some of the pictures here but I’m not sure if they’re copyrighted. A google image search of “Orvieto cathedral sculpture” should bring em up though.