Friday, July 31, 2009
No.8: Eros And Psyche
Vinyl On Canvas, 40cm X 50cm
Eros (Love),was the son of Aphrodite , the goddess of love and beauty .He had the power to make gods or mortals fall in love once struck by his arrow. His mother , Aphrodite hearing rumours that a mere mortal woman named Psyche (soul),had a reputation of being more beautiful than herself became very vexed.She ordered Eros to deal with her once and for all. She asked him to find Psyche and pierce her with an arrow making sure that a hideous creature would be close by so that she can fall for the monster.Having approached Psyche who was sleeping in a wood, Eros was stunned by her beauty, stumbled and grazed himself with his own arrow, helplessly falling in love with Psyche........
No.11: Thetis
Vinyl on canvas, 40cm X 50cm
Before Zeus ,Hades and Poseidon divided the earth sea and sky amongst themselves ,there were other sea gods, including Oceanus ,the creator of all the world's waters.Another sea god was Nereus, the kindly old man of the seas who would help sailors in distress.Nereus had fifty daughters who were known as the the beautiful Nereids or Sea Nymphs.Thetis was the Nereid whom Poseidon initially wanted to marry .Like many gods in human history , Poseidon was intensely jealous and insecure.He cancelled his plans of marrying Thetis after hearing of a prophecy that her first born son would grow to be greater than his father.....
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