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1st Edition
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- Artists
- Steadman, Ralph
 - Edition Details
| Year: | 2002 | | Class: | Art Print | | Status: | Official | | Run: | 15 | | Paper: | Hand made paper | | Size: | 41 X 48 | | Markings: | Signed & Numbered |
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APHRODITE was born after a trip to Cyprus, and the discovery later, that Aphrodite lives in the most unexpected places. As it happened she was living entombed in a weather rusted drain cover, behind my studio. I tore off that cover, one lazy Sunday afternoon, and attacked it with an electric metal grinder- a kind of etching by force. you might say. I knew, that somewhere inside that ugly, rust-jagged sheet of steel, their lived a Goddess- pure, sanguine, ethereal and desirable. But she was imprisoned. I had to rescue her, and what's more, I could hear her cry for help. For fifteen years I listened to her pleading. Finally I took my Everest North Face clambering ropes, my dangling equipment, and my ice picks, and attacked her miserable prison. At first, it mocked my pathetic rescue attempts, but gradually, I scaled the mountains of the kingdom of ZEUS, defeated the Gods of torment, and rescued her for the world. She is exquisite, albeit pockmarked, but luminous, and fresh from her moss green world of Arcadia.
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 | Original Price | $1,500.00 |
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| Collections | 1 |
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