My Final Major Project at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth, 2009. While no longer representative of my style or skill level – please check out my profile for more recent examples! – I've had a lot of positive and often touching feedback about this project over the years, so I'll be archiving it here for the foreseeable future.
The Roman poet Ovid wrote an epic by the name of Metamorphoses, weaving together various Greek, Roman, and older myths into one reasonably cohesive narrative. Its general theme is, unsurprisingly, metamorphosis; physical transformation as the last and most powerful expression of an internal sea change.
This project deals with the under- and misrepresentation of the epic's female characters, who are portrayed as either disempowered or mad, frequently even monstrous. It's a reinterpretation of these twelve stories, and an attempt at reappropriation.
This project deals with the under- and misrepresentation of the epic's female characters, who are portrayed as either disempowered or mad, frequently even monstrous. It's a reinterpretation of these twelve stories, and an attempt at reappropriation.
Galatea
Echo
Caenis
Semele
Scylla
Arachne
Charybdis
Procne & Philomela
Salmacis
Circe
Ceres
Proserpine
