My latest painting is finished and is named "XAIPE," (pronounced khai-ray) which my sources assure me loosely means "Farewell" in Ancient Greek (many Ancient Greek gravestones have the word "XAIPE" engraved on them).The subject is a gravestone from Paros depicting a young girl expressing her devotion to her doves. Doves are sacred to the goddess Aphrodite, but I am unsure of the exact relationship between these doves and the girl. Were they her's or did they belong to a temple of Aphrodite? In any case, the hands which carved this grave stele may very well be the same hands which sculpted some of the figures on the Parthenon frieze. The stele is kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and its details can be found here.
This is the first piece I've done since my mother's death and, in a way, is a farewell to her and her innocence.
