Rosy-Fingered Dawn and Eos’ Sister are sister pieces. Though painted several years apart they both are centered around this poem that I wrote.
Rosy-Fingered Dawn and Eos’ Sister
The first gods I noticed
were Eos and her sister.
They stayed outside though.
Skulking,
lurking
and spying
in the windows.
Trying to be inconspicuous.
But really,
can dawn slip over the eastern horizon
or sunset down the west unnoticed?
As much of my work is, these paintings are exercises in color. Dawn is so well described in Greek literature, gilded and reaching over the horizon with rosy fingers. I have rendered that gilding with gold leaf in the painting’s background. I have caught Dawn in the moment before she extends her hand to finish the stretch of her arms and also made her pregnant with possibilities.
- Subject Matter: Figure Painting
- Collections: Mythological Sightings