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Friday 25 September 2020

Gaia in the garden of the Hesperides

 

Alessia Delvecchio

 GAIA INT THE GARDEN OF THE HESPERIDES

digital painting print on gatorfoam

100x100x2cm, 2020

 

Gea, la terra, la Grande Madre, รจ al centro nel giardino delle Esperidi. Ha creato l'albero da cui sono fruttificati i pomi aurei come regalo alle nozze di Zeus con Era, e si compiace del suo operato. Sul suo corpo dalla carnagione scura compare come simbolo runico il Fehu al posto del suo organo sessuale. Come copricapo ricadono perle immacolate che catturano la luce del sole. Accanto a lei ha posto il drago Ladone, qui rappresentato da una lucertola con la coda arrotolata all'albero che sorveglia con le sue cento teste i preziosi pomi. Questo lavoro appartiene alla serie intitolata "Way back into Soul", in cui sono rappresentati antichi miti in chiave moderna.

Gaia, the personification of the Earth, the Great Mother, is in the middle of the garden of the Hesperides. She created the golden apple tree as a gift to Zeus' marriage to Hera, and is pleased with her work. On his coloured body, Fehu appears as a runic symbol in place of his sex organ. On her head she wears a headdress of immaculate pearls that catch the sunlight. Next to her she has placed the dragon Ladon, represented here by a lizard with its tail curled up against the tree that watches over the precious apples with its hundred heads.

This work belongs to a series entitled "Way back into Soul", in which ancient myths are represented in a modern way.