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Pasiphaë Seven

By  Susan Banks 2018

Dimensions
60 x 60 x 4

Pasiphaë Seven develops rectangular labyrinthine imagery from a Cretan coin and alludes to Knossos and to Minoan artefacts in Heraklion Archaeological Museum. Pasiphaë was the daughter of Helios, wife of Minos, mother of Ariadne and of the Minotaur. She was a practitioner of witchcraft. Oil on deep canvas.

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