The Blackness of Insanity or Misremembering in the Fog of War

Ares II

[In a battle-scene engraved on the shield of Achilles]: And Ares led an army of men, and Pallas Athene. These were gold, both, and golden raiment upon them, and they huge in their armour, being divinities, and conspicuous from afar.

- Homer, Iliad 18. 516 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic 8th Century B.C.)
Media: Charcoal, Graphite, Acrylic, Acrylic Inks, Volcanic Pumice on Handmade Indian Rag Deckled Paper
Support: Paper
Size: 30 x 22"
Date: 2/12/17
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