Tapestries
Description: "Come, my heart, put on your armour" - Euripides' Medea Medea sits on the porch of her house in Corinth after killing her children, in a short moment of contemplation, waiting for the arrival of Iason and her final triumph over him. She is the Deus ex Machina in her own play. She doesn't need a god to intervene on her behalf, she is half-god herself. The Medea of Euripides is probably one of my favourite plays of all time with Medea being one of my favourite characters ever put on stage. Euripides is a master of the pyschological thriller and the portrait he paints of Medea the child-killer, Medea the witch, Medea the wronged woman, Medea the hated foreigner, is still so modern and so topical, even now almost 2500 years later.
Description: The Maenads are a group of women devotees to the Dionysus, greek god of Wine and Ecstasy. In their ecstasy of devotion they enter a new state of being, gaining supernatural abilities and strength, running through the wilderness and tearing animals and men apart equally. While their real life existence is ambigious, they are famous for appearing in plays and tales of greek and roman origin. Most famously, they appear in Euripides' play "The Bacchae" where the women of Thebes are forced into ecstatic madness by the god Dionysus which ultimately ends in them dismembering their king, Pentheus.
Description: "I know the number of the sand and the measure of the sea;I understand the speech of the dumb and hear the voiceless." - Oracle of Delphi to Croesus of Lydia according to Herodotus Third version of the most powerful woman of the ancient Greek world. What a lonely life it must have been.
Description: "Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." - Sarah Williams, The old Astronomer Inspired by the pictures released by NASA from the James Webb telescope The fashion is inspired by the late Victorian/ early Edwardian era
Description: "Go then but know you go as one beloved although you go without your mind" - Antigonick by Anne Carson/ Sophocles I just love Antigone, she is such an interesting character and there are so many layers and interpretations to her actions. This is how she looked, in my mind, when she got caught burying her brother. Dressed in mourning with the dirt and blood of her brothers' corpse on hands and dress.
Description: The salvation or damnation of my soul is for me alone - Sylvia Plath Giulia Tofana was a professional poisoner living in 17th century Italy and the inventor of the poison Aqua Tofana. She mostly sold it to young people trapped in unhappy (or abusive) marriages as a means to escape said marriage and rid themselves of their spouses. She was executed in 1659 together with her daughter and helpers. Up to 600 deaths were rumored to be related to her and her famous poison
Description: "Godhood is just like girlhood. A beginning to be believed" - Kristin Chang Growing up in a very old, very European, very catholic country I am used to seeing bloody and dramatic depictions of saints everywhere. I do love the aesthetic though, so I wanted to do something reminiscent of these paintings and sculptures
