Medusa

Snakes grow from her head. She is the land around her - the eggs of the cosmos to the river of life to the plains of formation to the gentle rolling hills of earth.

I had a vision of a snake-headed woman who was both a woman of the land and a queen of creation. She told me her name was Medusa, but she was clearly not the Medusa of Greek mythology. I always wondered, what kind of power Medusa had that she was so feared by the Greeks they thought her gaze would turn them to stone? As I painted her I knew. She turns you into what she sees in your heart.

Acrylic on canvas. 22 X 28 inches.
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@2011 Annette Wagner.

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