Title: Complexity of Women's Life /Rape of Europa (3 in Life series)
       
     
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Title: Complexity of Women's Life /Rape of Europa (3 in Life series)

Dimensions: 18” x 24” each panel

Panels: 6

Year: 2016- 2023

Medium: Carbon nanotube, water colour and ink

Description:

This work is third in a series of six, is based on the story of the Rape of Europa. Inspired by a work by Titian stolen in the 80's from the Gardener Museum. In the story a princess named Europa, walks along the coast, and Zeus who covets her beauty, begins a plan to kidnap her. He transforms himself into a stunning bull, as his son Hermes moves the heard behind him covering Zeus’s disguise.

Amazed by the stunning animal and its distraction she is lured to ride him. Once on his back she is trapped and he jumps into the sea taking her away from her home.