Description
‘Selene’ by Kaysha Siemens
Artist: Kaysha Siemens
Title: ‘Selene’
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 8″ x 8″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2020
About the Artwork:
Sappho, Fragment 34:
“The stars hide away their shining form around lovely Selene when in all her fullness she shines over all the earth.”
Sappho, Fragment 96:
“Rosy-fingered Selene after sunset, surpassing all the stars, and her light spreads alike over the salt sea and the flowery fields; the dew is shed in beauty, and roses bloom and tender chervil and flowery melilot.”
Euripides:
“Selene, circle of gleaming gold, daughter of radiant-belted Helios.”
“Selene to the Greeks and Luna to the Romans, the shining-faced goddess of the moon. Part of the artist’s ongoing project Mnemosyne. Oil on board, can be shipped framed or unframed depending on the buyer’s preference.” – Kaysha Siemens
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Kaysha Siemens was born and raised in Canada, and now makes her home near Asheville, NC, USA. She works mainly in oil and graphite, and her current primary focus is Mnemosyne, an ongoing project inspired by Greek myth. She seeks to talk about the ordinary with the language of story, to arrest with exquisite imagery, and ultimately to leave viewers with a feeling, a lingering sense, that they have had a brush with the sublime.