The Moirae

Acrylic and Oil on Hardboard

I met a young lady who called her­self Delir­ium after the char­ac­ter from Neil Gaiman’s The End­less. We cre­ated a few impres­sions, of which this is the third. It’s named for the Greek inter­pre­ta­tion of the Fates, part of which is para­phrased here:

The Moirae were sup­posed to appear three nights after a child’s birth to deter­mine the course of its life, as in the story of Melea­gerand the fire­brand taken from the hearth and pre­served by his mother to extend his life^[9] Bruce Karl Braswell^[10] from read­ings in thelex­i­con of Hesy­chius, asso­ciates the appear­ance of the Moirae at the fam­ily hearth on the sev­enth day with the ancient Greek cus­tom of wait­ing seven days after birth to decide whether to accept the infant into the Gens and to give it a name, cemented with a rit­ual at the hearth. At Sparta the tem­ple to the Moirae stood near the com­mu­nal hearth of the polis, as Pau­sa­nias observed.

The paint­ings with Delir­ium, Black Lotus and Delir­ium Tremens, are unique amongst the Objec­tify series. They are very much her and as as much as joy to view as she was to work with. 

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