I’m taking an English Composition course, I’m hoping to transfer to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and I want to get the academic work out of the way. I gripe about CA but its junior colleges are wonderful and affordable. My last assignment was to write an essay on Sophocles’ play Oedipus the King; what a treat, if one can delight in such abject misery. I enjoy writing and re-reading the play brings me tremendous pleasure. At the end of the day, after researching source material (the psychoanalyst W.R. Bion, the mythologist Robert Graves) just being steeped in the narrative; after such a day of writing and thinking it felt good to just make.
This little watercolor of the young king beseeching the Delphic Oracle for insight is the result.
Oedipus Rex
2014
watercolor on paper
5.5 by 8.5 inches
From Grave’s The Greek Myths 2:
“…Oedipus went to ask the Delphic Oracle what future lay in store for him. ‘Away from the shrine, wretch!’ the Pythoness cried in disgust. ‘You will kill your father and marry your mother!’ (105).
With that cheery thought may your day be bright.
Be well, Lg
Boondocks Babylon 