The Cycladic figure housed at the Art Gallery of New South Wales has been dated c.2500 BC, locating it in the EC II period and it is of the Dokathismata type (plate 11). This canonical figure is standing with arms folded across the stomach. Anatomical detail such as hands, fingers and toes are inscribed. This figure is unusual in that only the forearms show this deliniation, the upper arms being fully rendered. The lower half of the legs are also fully rendered relating this piece to the earlier Louros and Plastiras types of EC I. There is no movement suggested in the figure except for the subtle gesture in the tilted head. The slightly bent knees and downward pointing feet are indicative of the stillness of this form. However, the position of the feet also suggests an upward movement, as it appears to stand on its toes. The verticality is convincingly suggestive of human vitality, and as with the head gesture, gives the figure an animated quality. The definition of the human form has been reduced in this stationary figure, proportion is distorted, and yet, I would suggest, it displays vitality, the spirit of human life. This concept of the spirit as the expressed essence of a form is central to the proposition at the core of my research. It is discussed further in the next section on the Louros figures.