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Sperry, Chuck More info
Manufacturer
Hangar 18
Edition Details
Year:2025
Class:Art Print
Status:Official
Released:03/02/25
Run:25
Technique:Screen Print
Paper:Sparkle Foil
Size:18 X 35
Markings:Signed & Numbered
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“Danaïde” wears early spring flowers and carries her terracotta amphora decorated with the winged horse Pegasus. As Pegasus stamps the earth, so bursts a spring; as Hippocrene flows on Mt Helicon, so flows inspiration from the source of the muses.

The myth of the 50 Danaïdes, condemned for all eternity to toil, to endlessly carry water to fill a leaking vessel. Sisyphus fated to bear his heavy stone uphill, only to lose his burden near the hilltop, and to begin again.

This is our struggle for equal rights, for our democracy. To paraphrase Albert Camus: the struggle itself — to continually work to fill the leaking jar — is enough to fill her heart. One must imagine the Danaïdes happy
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Original Price$350.00
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