The dark domain. The underworld, home to mice and moles and snakes and bats, volcanos, roots, vegetable growth, and Pluto.
Greek gods are personifications of natural phenomena; or projections of human consciousness (the self) into aspects of nature.
Venus is you, so is Apollo; wherever your mind chooses to dwell.
Pluto in his cavern sat,
illumined by the sulphrous glow
Feeling now the dread impact
Of Venus and her Cupid’s bow.
Pluto represents the darker aspects of my art and of myself, for what we visualise, that is who we are.
Demeter, goddess of the harvest, and Zeus, had a daughter, Persephone. She was gathering flowers when Pluto burst through a crack in the earth and abducted her.
Demeter, in her agony, neglects the earth and causes all growth to cease. Eventually Zeus persuaded Pluto to return Persephone to her mother, but Pluto managed to have her spend half the year with him in Hades where she is the queen of the underworld.
The part of the year when Persephone is in Hades, is our winter, but to my mind, during that time it is spring in the underworld, and a time of joy.
Dark joy, like serious music.
The art of Ryno Swart 