Wednesday, July 10, 2013

The Metamorphoses by Ovid

For my summer semester in collage the theme is "The Metamorphoses" by Ovid.  These are stories featuring the figures of classical mythology.  "At its extremes, passion is represented by transformation, or metamorphosis, through love, death, or radical physical change.  Metamorphosis, for Ovid, is a skeleton key to the workings of life itself and the workings of art as well."

The featured collage is interpreted by me from the following passage:
"Meanwhile, Ceres, fearful for her daughter, searched for her in every land, on every sea but in vain.  Dawn coming up from ocean at the break of day with hair still damp saw Ceres looking everywhere, and Hesperus, the evening star, saw her at dusk, looking still.  She lit torches made of pine from Mt. Etna and carried them in each hand through the frosty night, never resting, and still searching for her daughter, searching from the rising of the sun to its going down."


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