{"id":21,"date":"2023-06-15T19:34:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T16:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunariikonen.com\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2024-03-02T16:19:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T14:19:16","slug":"metamorphoses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lunariikonen.com\/en\/metamorphoses\/","title":{"rendered":"Metamorph\u014ds\u0113s\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this series I contemplate different mythologies and religions bringing up characters from the swishs of shared cultural heritage. Many myths repeat themselves throughout the history of the humankind and universal hopes, fears and dreams are brought up time after time in different forms and shapes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Familiar and more unknown stories can awake new ideas, thoughts and completely new stories when presented in a new context. It is also important to regularly bring up so called \u201ctaboos\u201d - by guestioning we learn to make the choices between right and wrong, as well as those liminal spaces where we make our decisions, wherever they may take us<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eve in Paradise<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

92cm x 216cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

charcoal and acrylic on canvas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”Here grows the cure of all, this fruit divine. Fair to the eye, inviting to the taste. Of virtue to make wise: what hinders then to reach, and feed at once both body and mind?”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

-John Milton, Paradise Lost<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Kuvassa<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Persephone <\/strong>
Charcoal and acrylic on canvas
80cm x 70cm 
2023 
 
”But when the earth flourishes with flowers 
In spring fragrant and many-coloured, at that time from under the murky gloom 
You are to rise up, a great wonder to gods and mortals.” <\/em>
 
-Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 400 
Translated by Charles Boer <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lucifer and Serpent <\/strong>
Charcoal and acrylic on canvas
100cm x 70 cm 
2023 
 
”Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; 
And in the lowest deep a lower deep, 
Still threat’ning to devour me, opens wide, 
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.” <\/em>
 
-John Milton, Paradise Lost <\/p>\n\n\n

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Medusa and Themis <\/strong>
Charcoal and acrylic on canvas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

70cm x 100cm 
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Song of Songs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charcoal and acrylic on canvas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

80cm x 100cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?<\/em>”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Sond of Songs 1:7, King James Bible<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apollo <\/strong>
Charcoal and acrylic on canvas
70cm x 70cm 
2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I sing of far-shooting Apollo, the cunning god of sun
in his harmony the search of art has thus begun<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phoebus strums his lyre, his melodies take flight
guiding souls through darkness, bringing them to light<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Muses, his companions, inspire his sacred verse
their voices intertwining, a symphony to immerse<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the sun dips below the horizon’s gleaming line
the sky reflects in the wine dark sea, gracious and fine<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When dawn breaks and aurora paints the sky in flame
Apollo’s lyre resounds, resolution, nature’s acclaim<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verses’ might and a brother’s gift, the cunning lyre
in the golden drops of sunlight, a sound divine, inspire<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Kaksiosainen<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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What do you mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mixed media on canvas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 x 60cm x 60cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Search for Beauty<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mixed media on canvas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

80cm x 100cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pandora<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acrylic on canvas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

70cm x 90cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023<\/p>\n\n\n

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Horses of The Apocalypse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

akryyli ja muste kartonkilevylle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 x 30cm x 78cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u0411\u043e\u0433\u0430 \u041d\u0435\u0442?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

acrylic, pigment powder, mirror and paper on canvas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

85cm x 120cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Kuvassa<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Rhapsodies From Hell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

acrylic on canvas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once there was a reverie of a dubious paradise <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

it was dreamt by a stranger in Eden, a wily serpent <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

a tempter of mind and flesh, a sychopant of souls <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The reality of one mind is the other\u2019s delusion <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the illusion shatters another takes its place <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and so the monstrous vision gets a crystallized shape <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trying to keep miseries at bay is wicked work <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

there are bulletproof demons who know how to defy gravity  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As they rise up from the depths of flaming inferno, <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

their insolent laugh echoing through valleys and cities habited by mortal souls, <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

morale falters easily and they get a taste of the whimsical nature of a madman<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The spirit of a man is quick to love and quicker to despair <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

for there are many delights in the realms of men and plenty beyond <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and there are forces as many to rip those gratifications apart and revel in what\u2019s left<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

there is no greater loss than the one that was always promised but never given <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The dance of Nephilim rises the dust from this deserted land <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and the sound of their joyful steps vibrates within the forest dark kissed by endless night, ice and fire <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

like whispers of forgotten Echo who, drifting through the woods, still mourns her lost love<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As I walk on the ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

inspecting the pillars of salt containing ravaged souls <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I turn my face to the skies above calling for answers <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But the angels keep their enduring silence <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and only the demons below shout their sardonic rhapsodies of defiance<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

their harsh words are hard to ignore and the blessings of a saviour drown in their cacophonic song of lies and hidden truths <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is said before the heavens can never truly be forgotten<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

and so the devil finds serenity in his eternal ache <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

that started with a dream of a long-awaited rebellion <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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