The Labrynth

This is a detail of The Labrynth, the painting I made for Neil Sheehan and Tamara Nation in 2004. The detail shows an Athenean youth holding Ariadne's thread, the strand that insured her return with Theseus from The Underworld after the slaying of the Minotaur. The thread in the painting is glued and varnished to the painting.

The painting is acrylic on canvas, 5x10 feet. Neil took these photos, that's their sofa along the bottom of the frame.

Here Thesues and Ariadne confront the Minotaur while the Children of Athens follow behind on the stairs.

You can just make out the same Anthenean youth holding the thread, sitting on an arch to the right and up from The Beatles. Daedalus, the builder of the Labrynth, is pushing up a column in the lower left.

Here Pasiphae, Queen of Crete, holds the baby Minotaur in her arms. Mt Ida erupts at the lower left while revelers dance at the death of the Minotaur.

Above is my favorite section of the painting.

It is called, "What's for dinner?

This is a preliminary drawing for the painting.