acrylic paint on Handtied acrylic vase 20 x 14cm 2021

IMAGE MARNIE DIR. ALFRED HITCHCOCK INKJET AND ACRYLIC ON PAPER 30 x 30 cm 2021

THE MEADOW
One of the most completely described holy sites in classical literature is that invoked by Euripides in his play Hippolytus Hippolytus says to Artemis through the medium of her statue in the grove

I have brought you this green crown,

goddess, fresh from the scene

where I spliced its flowers together,

a meadow as virginal as you are,

where no shepherd would think it wise

to pasture his animals,

a perfect field

no iron blade has yet cut down.

Only the bees looking for flowers in spring

go freely through its cool grass.

Its water flows from the goddess

Restraint, who not only

leads in the rivers herself but keeps the place a special preserve

for those whom modesty enters at birth,

the instinctively good –

these may pick what they will

,but the vulgar are barred from the meadow.

Now, blest lady, take this, embellishYour gold hair –

it comes from a faithful hand.