ECHIDNA
portrait of a mythical hybrid being
"[...] the goddess fierce Echidna who is half a nymph with glancing eyes and fair cheeks, and half again a huge snake, great and awful, with speckled skin, eating raw flesh beneath the secret parts of the holy earth. And there she has a cave deep down under a hollow rock far from the deathless gods and mortal men. There, then, did the gods appoint her a glorious house to dwell in: and she keeps guard in Arima beneath the earth, grim Echidna, a nymph who dies not nor grows old all her days."
Hesiod's description in Theogony
Echidna (a modern interpretation)
110x110cm 44"x 44"
From the series: HYBRIDS
A series about the animal tail of our subconscious.
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