Cecilia

Can’t figure this out …. Decay/industrialisation/the Anthropocene (?). Why Medusa?

Article linking it to Leucippe and Clitophon and the fear of movement in ekphrasis: ‘Helen Morales, in her brilliant study of vision and narrative in Achilles Tatius’ novel, points out that, even though Medusa’s head (and, by extension, the painting depicting it) is lifeless, the language of the description is suffused with movement’ https://minusplato.com/2015/05/petrifying-danger-chris-burdens-medusa-2.html