I began this piece during my trip to Athens. While browsing through a friend's library, I came across an incredible book that I’ll be sharing in the next few days. In it, I rediscovered the magnificent portrait A Young Lady by Petrus Christus, a work that has often inspired me. I felt it would be a great opportunity to reinterpret the beauty of this painting through my own lens.
Process
In the image below, my excitement led me to incorporate embroidery, a craft I first learned as a child.
However, I quickly realized that the delicate details of the embroidery clashed with the complexity I intended for the hair. It turned out to be a bit of a miscalculation, and I ended up spending more time than I anticipated. Still, even though it didn’t quite work out as planned, it was a failure I can appreciate.
Tisiphone was one of the Erinyes or Furies, and sister of Alecto and Megaera.
She was the one who punished crimes of murder: parricide, fratricide and homicide. A myth recounts how Tisiphone fell in love with Cithaeron, and caused his death by snakebite, specifically, by one of the snakes from her head.
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Tisiphone acrylic,gel ink , gold on paper 42x59,4 ©Meyoko |
