Echoes of Myth
Acheron
The crossing is a beginning, not an ending
—Vanessa Violet
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Varied line and stipple pen techniques
Flock of blackbirds with abstract linework
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Prometheus
To give what was hoarded away by the powerful. To reveal what was kept hidden. The thing that illuminates the darkness. Fire shared despite the cost known.
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Abstract linework
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Ares
The presure building. The darkness bending. The ever present never ending turbulant war holding darkness and light in tandem.
An old wound. An ancient name. The echo reaching across time.
—Vanessa Violet
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Varied line and stippling pen techniques
Abstract forms
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Hephaestus
Within the deepest caverns of Vesuvius, through a thick haze, Hephaestus steadily pounds metal on his forge. Even the air starts to turn molten, distorted and swollen with heat. His creations slay monsters and level mountains.
—Vanessa Violet
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Abstract linework
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Garden of Hades
The plants and vines distorted into a spear, life taking the shapes of the weapons that ended it. The garden of a place where things fester in the darkness, where the rivers of forgetfulness and sorrow run through everything until the edges dissolve.
-Vanessa Violet
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Abstract linework
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Persephone
A girl so beloved, her absence brings winter and her return signals spring. A story told and retold across millennia, finding new truth in every generation that needed her.
—Vanessa Violet
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Abstract linework
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Dionysus
Tannin rises through the grain of aged oak barrels and wine splashes from the rim of the chalice in abundant and carefree. For this night. May it never empty.
—Vanessa Violet
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Varied line and stipple pen techniques
Abstract forms and linework
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2024 Vanessa Violet
Poseidon
Poseidon. God of the Sea, of storms, of earthquakes. Of effortless power, so vast, it simply is. Beautiful enough to call voyagers across it. Heavy enough to take them without malice, without intention, without even noticing.
—Vanessa Violet
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Varied line and stipple pen techniques
Abstract forms and linework
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2024 Vanessa Violet
Hera
The many eyes of Argus plucked and preserved. Grief made permanent in the plumage of a peacock. Tenderness buried in a myth overshadowed by jealousy and punishment.
—Vanessa Violet
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Varied line pen techniques
Abstract forms and linework
9 x 12/12 x 16/18 x 24
2024 Vanessa Violet