DREAMSCAPE 1/4

Mixed media (acrylic and Gesso) on 36″ X 24″ canvas. This work captures cultural elements from Sicily, the artist’s place of origin. Many familiar myths come from Sicily including mermaids dating back thousands of years. Among the earliest documented sightings of mermaids was 586 B.C.E. by both Arabs and the Roman author, Pliny the Elder.

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Description

Mermaids are historically believed to possess incredible beauty that renders mortals powerless. Mermaids also possessed other powers. One of these is their emotions could influence the weather and manipulate the sea. Sailors feared angering mermaids as they could summon terrible storms and hurricanes capable of destroying entire ships and even coastal towns.

Sirens are related to mermaids. This mythical creature hypnotic song that is used to enchant sailors causing them to lose their bearings destroying their ships on rocks. They also claim that mermaids possessed gorgeous voices like the voices that could hypnotize any man that heard it. The mermaids’ melody could bewitch men, distract them from their work and lure them into the sea.

Pegasus:

Syracuse bronze Pegasus Syracuse was founded by Corinth on the island of Sicily. The smaller bronze coins bear a Pegasus on the front, and the head of Apollo on the back.

A white Pegasus… although considered Roman, these creatures were from Greek mythology. Sometimes they had wings of feathers, and other times wings of skin or angels

The symbolism of Pegasus varies with time. Symbol of wisdom and especially of fame from the Middle Ages until the Renaissance, he became one symbol of the poetry and the creator of sources in which the poets come to draw inspiration, particularly in the 19th century. Pegasus is the subject of a very rich iconography, especially through the ancient Greek pottery and paintings and sculptures of the Renaissance. Personification of the water, solar myth, or shaman mount, Carl Jung and his followers have seen in Pegasus a profound symbolic esoteric in relation to the spiritual energy that allows to access to the realm of the gods on Mount Olympus.

Neptune: In Roman mythology Neptune (Greek: Poseidon) was the god of the Sea. He was the brother of Jupiter (Zeus) and of Pluto (Hades). After the defeat of their father Saturn (Cronos), the three brothers divided the world in three parts to be ruled by one of the three brothers. Jupiter took the sky, Neptune the sea and Pluto the underworld. Neptune had the reputation for having a violent temper. Tempests and earthquakes were a reflection of his furious rage. Neptune and Amphitrite had several children. Among them was Triton whose name was given in 1846 by William Lassell to the principal moon of the planet Neptune.