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The Nymphe Kalypso
I have enjoyed Suzanne Vega’s song “Calypso” for many years, the visual imagery in it is so sorrowful… Kalypso standing, lonely, on the shore of her island as she lets Odysseus sail away. it’s a poignant song full of longing and resignation and until now I have never been able to come up with an image that did the emotion any justice. I was glad that the call for work for this show gave me an excuse to go back to many half sketched ideas and run one of them aground.
Kalypso left alone again, with her golden shuttle and her weaving, unbinding her hair into the wind in a rare moment of emotional abandon. Trapped and alone, imprisoned daughter of a Titan, her future an empty eternity of unrequited love.
I have enjoyed Suzanne Vega’s song “Calypso” for many years, the visual imagery in it is so sorrowful… Kalypso standing, lonely, on the shore of her island as she lets Odysseus sail away. it’s a poignant song full of longing and resignation and until now I have never been able to come up with an image that did the emotion any justice. I was glad that the call for work for this show gave me an excuse to go back to many half sketched ideas and run one of them aground.
Kalypso left alone again, with her golden shuttle and her weaving, unbinding her hair into the wind in a rare moment of emotional abandon. Trapped and alone, imprisoned daughter of a Titan, her future an empty eternity of unrequited love.