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Cassandra Six

By  Susan Banks 2024

It is not a lion, or a painting of a lion, or a painting of a carving of a lion but a painting of an idea of a fresco of a sculpture of a lion, But I suppose it is a digital photo….

Cassandra Six takes further liberties with the form of the Lion Gate at Mycenae, its threshold and monolithic stone lintel. The intention was to pastiche the drawings/paintings of the Bronze age as seen in frescoes, to replace the missing lion heads and to represent the unfortunately gifted Cassandra with a central motif. 

I want it to be more than ambiguous, a liminal space between depiction, symbolism and the unknown and incomprehensible.

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.

Susan Banks

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