This print illustrates the Greek Myth of Persephone and Demeter. My title for this print is: “Charon looks up at at the dead flowers from the underworld and sees Demeter’s grief.”
I etched dead flowers illustrate Demeter’s sadness when Persephone returns to the Underworld in the fall. To emphasis their decay I painted them with yellow and black Akua ink. I etched a skeletal figure looking up from a cave to depict Charon whose duty in Greek Mythology was to ferry over the Rivers Styx and Acheron the deceased souls who had received burial rites. The cave is the entrance to the underworld. I also etched a red pomegranate because Hades binds Persephone to the Underworld by giving her this fruit. In Greek Mythology if you eat or drink in the home turf of a God or Goddess you are forever bound to said turf and the Mythical figure.
Medium: Etching on clear plexiglass, printmaking, Akua ink.
Freshman Year Drawing Through the Making Center
Parsons School of Design
Spring 2022
