Sappho and the girl who left the island

This is my pen drawing of Sappho and one of the young girls who had to leave the island, a drawing inspired from Sappho’s poem No word.

Sappho – No word

I have had not one word from her
Frankly I wish I were dead.
When she left, she wept
a great deal; she said to
me, ``This parting must be
endured, Sappho. I go unwillingly.''
I said, ``Go, and be happy
but remember (you know
well) whom you leave shackled by love
``If you forget me, think
of our gifts to Aphrodite
and all the loveliness that we shared
``all the violet tiaras,
braided rosebuds, dill and
crocus twined around your young neck
``myrrh poured on your head
and on soft mats girls with
all that they most wished for beside them
``while no voices chanted
choruses without ours,
no woodlot bloomed in spring without song...''
Sappho

Black and white, after 10 years, the painting I’ve made in 2000 and the pen drawing I’ve made yesterday

This is a painting I’ve made by the autumn of the year 2000, one of my first paintings, a painting of two women standing next to a column somewhere in space, a white European woman and a black one.

The image below is the pen drawing of the same two women I’ve made yesterday.

A new pen drawing of a cosmic Eve

These days I’ve made a new pen drawing of a woman standing on another planet, in the light of the galaxy and Earth-like planet, sending the flame of life to the Earth-like planet.

This video is the making-of of this drawing.

She is leaving

She is leaving, leaving me behind. She is leaving taking away the warm sunlight and leaving the falling leafs of the autumn and the cold winter behind her. Everything is cold, freezing behind her.

This is an image of this blue feeling, a painting I’ve made when I was 16 and the image below is a drawing I’ve made yesterday.

Picasso’s Demoiselles

 

This is my version of Picasso’s Demoiselles

My version of Cézanne's bathers

 This is "the Bathers" a painting made by Paul Cézanne in 1905 and the pen drawing below is a reinterpretation of this painting. This is my version of Cézanne's bathing ladies

The spiral of life

The spiral galaxy that contains billions and billions of planets, some of the like Earth, places where there may be life, the DNA double helix, the spiral of life, pen and color pencil drawing.