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Traditional Art / Drawings / Surreal

The revenge of the Medusa
Ink on paper
12x18in

Medusa has sometimes appeared as representing notions of scientific determinism and nihilism, especially in contrast with romantic idealism. In this interpretation of Medusa, attempts to avoid looking into her eyes represent avoiding the ostensibly depressing reality that the universe is meaningless. Jack London uses Medusa in this way in his novel The Mutiny of the Elsinore:
"The profoundest instinct in man is to war against the truth; that is, against the Real. He shuns facts from his infancy. His life is a perpetual evasion. Miracle, chimera and to-morrow keep him alive. He lives on fiction and myth. It is the Lie that makes him free. Animals alone are given the privilege of lifting the veil of Isis; men dare not. The animal, awake, has no fictional escape from the Real because he has no imagination. Man, awake, is compelled to seek a perpetual escape into Hope, Belief, Fable, Art, God, Socialism, Immortality, Alcohol, Love. From Medusa-Truth he makes an appeal to Maya-Lie."
—Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore

By reversing the beheading, here,i try to reverse also the notion of such belief...here the animal beheads man,the illogical replaces the logical function...the notion that it is evil to look upon "the other" as a threat to man's inherent control of nature is absurd...nature holds us on our heads...whether we be kings or knaves...the feminine anima,the Medusa, displaces Perseus...

~BrokenShell121 Sep 12, 2011

Very interesting theme and intricate inkwork! I love the quote you chose by Jack London and your interpretation of the subject matter.

~sadlavE Jun 13, 2011 Student Interface Designer

Your drawings are truly amazing even if style and composition it self is the same it gives completely different feeling.. and that is truly great!

~BlackCloudConnected Jun 13, 2011

Beautiful, you've made a very pretty face.
Man love your details, it's beautiful

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