Athena's Gift Series
For these drawings I chose a title with ambiguity, “Athena’s Gift”. Are they gifts from the Greek Goddess behaving in her role as a patron of metalwork weapons (if I consider a metal stylus as a weapon in defense of beauty)? Or are they gifts to her and the characteristics she represents, such as wisdom or courage? Even surrounded by the completed works in my studio, I still don’t know.
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Athena's Gift S6
silverpoint drawing on a prepared archival surface...composed within a √2 proportioned area...the bow relates to a unique geometric shape which I described in a paper titled “A process for generating 2-D painting and drawings from geometric diagrams” (published in the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, v2 no. 1, March 2008)...exhibited in “Council Room: The Artist Heraldry Show” curated by Andrea Pollan for the McLean Project for the Arts in 1999...9.5” x 13.5” (24cm x 34.5cm)...© Elizabeth Whiteley
