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The shadow of Orpheus and Eurydice

Year 2021
Size 33.1 × 29.9 in

Our time is limited and the love story of Orpheus and Eurydice exemplifies this principle in all its heartbreaking beauty. After his death, the shadow of Orpheus descends underground, into hell, he finds Eurydice, “Then lovingly they wandered side by side/ or he would follow when she chose to lead/ or at another time he walked in front/ looking back, safely,—at Eurydice.”, (Ovid, in "Metamorphoses", the eleventh book). This last passage is the theme of my sculpture: when the shadow of Orpheus turns his head and looks at Eurydice without fear because the gods could no longer punish him.

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