Scylla #1
by Doug Morgan
Title
Scylla #1
Artist
Doug Morgan
Medium
Digital Art - Fractal Art Print
Description
According to Greek mythology, two monsters lived on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina in Italy. Charybdis lived on the North side, a ship-devouring beast that created giant whirlpools from which few sailing ships could escape. Scylla lived in a cavern on the rocky South walls of the strait. She had four rows of eyes, and six long snake-like necks, each topped with a head with three rows of razor sharp teeth. She could scramble down the rocky walls on 12 tentacles, grab six sailors and devour them.
These two evil fates created great angst among even experienced sailors, and ships would frequently succumb to one or the other horrible beasts. The idiom "between Scylla and Charybdis" has come to mean choosing between two equally dangerous situations or outcomes.
The fractal abstract Scylla was crafted directly from modest manipulations of an exact photographic negative of the fractal abstract, Charybdis. It seemed a fitting portrayal of the beast who lived in the brown rocky walls of the South side of the Strait. Charybdis is characterized by fractal portrayal of the wild blue and frothy white waters of the whirlpools generated on the North side of the Strait. It would be fitting to hang both pictures together (see also the fractal abstract Charybdis) as intriguing and conversation-provoking wall art.
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September 10th, 2018
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