Furies (Army Of Me), 2022

Furies in Roman mythology, or Erinyes in Greek - are female chthonic deities of vengeance. Their task is to hear complaints brought by mortals against the insolence of the young to the aged, of children to parents, of hosts to guests, and of householders or city councils to suppliants—and to punish such crimes by hounding culprits relentlessly. The Erinyes are more ancient than any of the Olympian deities.
The children of Gaea and Uranus, they were usually characterised as three sisters: Alecto (“unceasing”), Tisiphone (“avenging murder”), and Megaera (“grudging”). The Furies were always seen as cruel, but at the same time fair in their punishments.

‘The Furies are also called the Eumenides, the Kindly Ones, but nobody thinks they’re kind. It’s a smokescreen and a blandishment: Call them other than what they are and perhaps you’ll escape their notice; call them kind and perhaps they won’t hurt you. Their real names are Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera: Avenger of Murder, Unceasing Anger, and Jealousy. Kindness is clearly not on the menu.

But the title Eumenides holds a deeper truth: Their vengeance is a mercy, a deserved and necessary cleansing fire. They hunt down the wicked and punish them, both in life and after death, but the wrath of the Furies is not capricious. It’s directed at matricides and fratricides, perjurers, oathbreakers, and those who offend the gods. It is targeted and implacable, the striking hand of a finely tuned clockwork structure of morals and values.
The Furies’ anger doesn’t only scourge the world. It saves it.’
Jess Zimmerman

Painting comes with a 1/1 NFT minted on Manifold contract