Penelope's Web: Carnage Suited Me
acrylic and mixed media on paper 1/22/2001 15 x 21 inches
The text is taken from The Odyssey by Homer. The translation is by Robert
Fitzgerald:
Never, ... did I fear Death/ ahead, but went in foremost in> the charge,/
.... That was my element,/ war and battle. Farming I never cared for,/nor
life at home, nor fathering fair children.... Carnage suited me; ....--Homer
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Penelope's Web: Departing Skheria
acrylic on paper 5.17.2000 18 x 23 inches
The text is taken from The Odyssey by Homer. The translation is by Robert
Fitzgerald:
. . . . slumber, soft and deep like the still sleep of death, weighed
on his eyes as the ship hove seaward . . . her wake/on the purple night
sea foaming. This night at last he slept serene, his long-tried mind at
rest. --Homer
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