Diptych 48" x 42"and 48"x 20" Oil on Linen
“Lot’s Wife” (no other name given) and her two daughters must flee the city.
Severed from her home, her friends and all her history she is warned not to look back and yet her memories overwhelm her.
She turns and is extinguished!
After reading a short poem by Nobel laureate Anna Akhmatova
https://poets.org/poem/lots-wife
I imagined Lot’s Wife
Echo, a shy nymph with a speech impediment falls deeply in love with the noble, Narcissus.
Narcissus, stately born, egocentric while out hunting looses his way and calls out.
Echo answers the call in her confusing manner but Narcissus rejects the help of this lowborn nymph.
Echo, heartbroken, runs off.
As a fitting punishment Narcissus falls eternally in love with the reflection of himself.
Oil on Linen 42" x 36"
THESEUS pledges his love to ARIADNE after she skillfully devises his way out of the Labyrinth where he has slain the Minotaur.
He returns with Ariadne to Athens but along the way carelessly abandons her on the island of Naxos.
DIONYSOS -the Olympian god of wine, pleasure, festivity, and wild frenzy- and his cortege discover Ariadne, Dionysos is smitten. Ariadne becomes his immortal wife and the brightest star in heaven
