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Caryatid

The upper part of one of the caryatids that flanked the Lesser Propylaea of the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis. The caryatid was made in Attica in about 50 B.C. Eleusis Museum, Greece

The All-Pervading by George Frederic Watts (c. 1887-90)

Resonance

21 x 29,7cm, ink on paper, Kevin Lucbert, 2023

Gerrit van Honthorst - An Allegory of Taste, 1622 (detail), oil on canvas

Theodoros Angelopoulos: ‘Landscape in the Mist’ (1988)

The Goddess Who Saved a City by Fortunino Matania (1933)

You know, there’s something poetic in Hades being both the deity and the place. His watching over the deceased is such a big part of the deity that he is also the place the deceased go. It’s so integral to him that he is inseparable from the place.

Dionysus is in the erratic dancing in your room

Apollo is in the strum of your instrument

Artemis is in the swift glance of the deer

Hestia is in the warm hugs of family

Athena is in the peering eyes of the owl

Zeus is in the admiration of the pattering rain

Hera is in the stern guidance of a mother

Hephaestus is in craftsmanship of your tool

Aphrodite is in the overwhelming feeling of affection

Ares is in the instinct to protect those in need

Poseidon is in the enthralling crash of the watery waves

Hermes is in the ever-moving soul of a traveler

Demeter is in the wind sifting through the wheat

{ Original Poem for the Theoi }

Illustration by Ernst Stohr, from 'Ver Sacrum' Magazine, 1899

the gap; shifting mediums of yearning, yearning for the lines unknown. aching to break from the restrains. beauty undefined; beauty untamed. the in-between

straining the bonds of because, opening the page of why. do you hear the call? the call to question, to discover, to create. fallen light of musical reign, star beloved; a glowing image of the space within. the in-between.