Showing posts with label Abanthis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abanthis. Show all posts

Monday, June 3, 2019

My acrylics on canvas painting of Abanthis playing lyre for Gongyla



Please Abanthis your Sappho calls you:
Won't you take your Lydian lyre and play
Another song to Gongyla while desire still
flutters your heart-strings

for that girl, that beautiful girl: her dresses
clinging makes you shake when you see it, and i'm
happy for the goddess herself once blamed me
Our Lady of Cyprus

This poem written by Sappho has inspired me to make some pencil drawings and the painting above

You can watch me painting in the video below