Niobe’s Shadow
This large oil painting includes a reference in the background to the Greek mythological figure Niobe, whose weeps forever over the loss of her children. Cursed by the gods because of her father’s hubris, the cliff is a real place in Turkey and has a perpetual waterfall spilling into the sea like Niobe’ tears.
One of the hardest aspects of dealing with a sense of futility (which for me came after the anger, shock, dismay, berevement, and utter dislocation), post-ghosting, is the wish to just leave the planet. (But if I did split, what would happen to all of my artwork?)
