The Drink of the Gods / The Box of Eternal Beauty
- Year
- 2024-2025
- Artist
- Brooke Flanagan
- University
- Plymouth State University
- Major
- Graphic Design
- Title
- The Drink of the Gods / The Box of Eternal Beauty
- Genre
- Digital Illustration
- Category
- digital still
- Current Location
- Digital Only
- Description
- “The Box of Eternal Beauty” is an abstract digital illustration that depicts the moment Psyche opens the box, which supposedly contains part of Persephone’s beauty. She opens the box, unleashing a cloud of black smoke that puts her in a coma. The second piece is titled “The Drink of the Gods” and is another abstract digital illustration. Here the piece depicts the moment Psyche drinks Ambrosia causing her to shed her mortal form and become a goddess, allowing her to live together forever with Eros. The main symbol from the myth used throughout both pieces is the butterfly, as Psyche, the Goddess of Soul, is commonly depicted as possessing butterfly wings. A butterfly can be seen hovering over the chalice in “The Drink of the Gods” when Psyche is about to ascend to godhood. Butterfly nebulas can also be seen bursting from the dark smoke in “The Box of Eternal Beauty.” These nebulas, along with star fields contained in the spilled Ambrosia, were my way of adding ties to space and the beauty of the stellar objects scattered throughout the universe. Together these companion pieces depict a person’s journey and the ups and downs that they experience. Many of these challenges and obstacles can feel consuming and overwhelming. Yet it is from these trials that a person can emerge stronger than before and accomplish objectives that they may have never been able to before.
- Media
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The Drink of the Gods