Iocaste, Jupiter XXIV

$979.00

In Greek mythology, Iocaste was married to King of Thebes who had an oracle from Delphi visit him with a foretelling that he shouldn't have a child with his wife, or else his child would eventually grow up and kill him, and then marry her. He did not heed the warning from oracle, and fathered a boy named Oedipus, who did eventually kill his father, and went on to marry his mother Iocaste.

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This is one of a series of unique sculptures named after the Ananke Group, a collection of moons that orbit Jupiter that came to being from a meteor strike.

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1/8” thick acrylic triangles, 15” x 8” x 6”

Ananke Series, 2023

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In Greek mythology, Iocaste was married to King of Thebes who had an oracle from Delphi visit him with a foretelling that he shouldn't have a child with his wife, or else his child would eventually grow up and kill him, and then marry her. He did not heed the warning from oracle, and fathered a boy named Oedipus, who did eventually kill his father, and went on to marry his mother Iocaste.

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This is one of a series of unique sculptures named after the Ananke Group, a collection of moons that orbit Jupiter that came to being from a meteor strike.

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1/8” thick acrylic triangles, 15” x 8” x 6”

Ananke Series, 2023

In Greek mythology, Iocaste was married to King of Thebes who had an oracle from Delphi visit him with a foretelling that he shouldn't have a child with his wife, or else his child would eventually grow up and kill him, and then marry her. He did not heed the warning from oracle, and fathered a boy named Oedipus, who did eventually kill his father, and went on to marry his mother Iocaste.

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This is one of a series of unique sculptures named after the Ananke Group, a collection of moons that orbit Jupiter that came to being from a meteor strike.

———

1/8” thick acrylic triangles, 15” x 8” x 6”

Ananke Series, 2023