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VIII Strength

Reimagining one of my favourite Tarot archetypes.

Currently on Display at Poetic Tiger Gallery as part of "Gold Embrace" group show.

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The Portrait Show 13: Magic

The Night Of Persephone

Currently on Display at Modern Eden Gallery:

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inspiration behind the painting

Metamorphoses-

the process of changing form or structure; a transformation, especially one effected by magical or supernatural agency. The word is used of Ovid’s poem, whose title literally means “Transformations.”

Source: The Century Dictionary, vol. XI, New York: The Century Co., 1895

“For Persephone, the maiden of the spring,
whose footsteps cause the blossoms to rise,
once fled the bright fields of her mother,
and entered the shadowed realm of Hades,
yet each year she returns, and the earth rejoices.”

- Pindar, Pythian Odes, 1.33‑38

“Now Jupiter, intervening, between his brother and grieving sister, divides the turning year, equally.
And now the goddess Persephone, shared divinity of the two kingdoms, spends so many months with her mother, so many months with her husband.
The aspect of her face and mind alters in a moment.”

Metamorphoses Book 5 (lines ≈ 340‑345)
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