Dimensions: 58 “ x 44 “
Total: 58“ x 164”
Panels: 3
Year: 2016- 2023
Medium: Carbon nanotube, water colour and ink
Description:
This large triptych explores the ancient story of Actaeon and the moment when loyalty changes to betrayal, from illusion created by others.
Actaeon while hunting stag with his loyal dogs finds Diana and her Nymphs in the forrest,. He secretly stalks his new prey and spies upon them bathing. When she discovers him she transforms him into the original prey he had been originally seeking, a stag.
And then prepares to hunt him herself drawing her bow.
A bee flies between them which represents progress, in the middle of chaos. This constant progress leading to chance discoveries and their effect on trusted relationships is the purpose of this work.
Before she could fire her arrow, Actaeon’s once loyal hounds now full of the sent of the stag, who were once his loyal friends turn to kill him and will soon rip him to pieces unable to remember who he was before.
The right and left panel are in black and white are meant to appear sculptural, and split the head of Actaeon at this moment of betrayal.
Where the viewer is meant to enter the head of Actaeon and explore this experience, which are the artists own feelings of betrayal, after business partners turned on him as our businesses evolved. I discovered not Diana but a new technology, as we hunted for mutual success, causing them to turn.
This experience caused him to have great success. Turning the betrayal into progress, which is why the bee flying between the figures in the central panel is the key message.
This work took five years to complete, in watercolour and ink.