by Aaron Burleson
acrylic on canvas
8”W × 14”H
“My rendition of a popular canonical subject - that of Ganymede, a youth abducted by the god Zeus in disguise as an eagle, taken into the heavens to be Zeus’ cupbearer. At a sort of subconscious level, it felt like an appropriate image for our contemporary era, with Epstein’s crimes, Maduro’s abduction by US military forces and, more broadly, human trafficking being at the forefront of our sociopolitical consciousness. In previous classical depictions, artistic focus is given to the young man’s body contorting in the air - here, Ganymede is presented as a limp, almost lifeless body at the whim of the flying beast. “ - Aaron Burleson
by Aaron Burleson
acrylic on canvas
8”W × 14”H
“My rendition of a popular canonical subject - that of Ganymede, a youth abducted by the god Zeus in disguise as an eagle, taken into the heavens to be Zeus’ cupbearer. At a sort of subconscious level, it felt like an appropriate image for our contemporary era, with Epstein’s crimes, Maduro’s abduction by US military forces and, more broadly, human trafficking being at the forefront of our sociopolitical consciousness. In previous classical depictions, artistic focus is given to the young man’s body contorting in the air - here, Ganymede is presented as a limp, almost lifeless body at the whim of the flying beast. “ - Aaron Burleson