Inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses—specifically the myth of Diana and Actaeon—this work explores my own personal mythology of transition, cycle, and... Read More
Inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses—specifically the myth of Diana and Actaeon—this work explores my own personal mythology of transition, cycle, and bodily mutation. Rather than depicting transformation as a tragic, one-time punishment, I see it as an inescapable loop. In Ovid's world, we cannot escape metamorphosis; we can only run within its eternal cycle.
In 'What Always Returns', the figure on the right is caught in this relentless momentum, dissolving into the landscape only to be reborn through it. I immerse this morphing body in a scene of fertile chaos, where heavy, sweeping earth tones collide with a cascading curtain of blue rain. At the very bottom, a few delicate herbs anchor the entire composition, serving as a visceral reminder of this perpetual loop: even in the midst of chaotic dissolution, life inevitably returns to find its footing.
