Cassandra Minus Three

Cassandra Minus Three reuses a motif that represents the princess/priestess/clairvoyant Cassandra. The painting features a pattern that is derived from a bronze age fresco but alludes to the sacred fabrics that were, according to myth, spread on the threshold of the Mycenaean Palace. The work is playful, intentionally painterly and untidy suggesting old, unstable surfaces 

Note. Cassandra, a daughter of King Priam, was the prophetess who foretold the fall of Troy. She was given the gift of prophecy by Apollo but, as she rejected him, he cursed her so that nobody would believe her.

After the fall of Troy, she was taken as a concubine by Agamemnon and, with him, she was killed by his wife, Clytemnestra.

Oil on deep canvas