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Asterius's last breath - Minotaur greek mythology sculpture (2008)

12" tall and Made with Super Sculpey (Polymer Clay) then hand painted with acrylic.

Asterion (Greek: Ἀστερίων) or Asterius (Greek: Ἀστέριος) mostly know as The MINOTAUROS (or Minotaur) was a bull-headed monster born to Queen Pasiphae of Krete after she had coupled with a bull.

The creature resided in the twisting maze of the labyrinth, where he was offered a regular sacrifice of youths and maids to satisfy his cannibalistic hunger. He was eventually destroyed by the hero Theseus.

Here I have depicted Asterion the Minotaur finding Theseus's thread while standing over the picture of his Mother Pasiphae nursing him on the floor beneath him the showing contrast moments before his death.

In this interpretation he was a intelligent creature, pushed to madness with life of pain and isolation, making him lose what little last shred of humanity he may of had. I tried showing this with scars from the years of abuse at the hands of his father King Minos.

If Asterion was truly a mindless Beast, why could his mother breastfeed him so tenderly? Here you see this in Pasiphae nursing him on the floor beneath him, I imagined that Pasiphaë had Daedalus place this image of her nursing him on the floor in hopes it would remind her malformed son of her love, sadly the years of living in the dark and abuse have left him too blind to ever see it.

In truth Theseus was not killing a monster but joining in on a cycle of tragedy.

If you like this and want to see more, I posted more pic's on my deviantart

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As well as a Video presentation I will be posting a.s.s.p

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