The daughter leaves the mother. The mother left her mother who left her mother. The story of Persephone is the story we all enact when we leave the ones we love... as we must. Demeter in her grief ends the spring. She plunges the land in drought. Persephone the Goddess of spring becomes the Goddess of the Underworld. In my painting she is wide awake. She knows where she is going. She knows her mother sits at the entrance to the world of dreams weeping. An ocean of tears cannot stop her. The journey between the worlds... that is the only journey. Fearless. We leave the Beauty we have been walking in to accept our destiny. The darkness below beckons like the soil embracing the roots of the Morning Glory. Fearless.
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