Price: $2,500.00
Art Medium: Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
Size: 61 cm x 61 cm
Year: 2023
Catman is a portrait of a young man who represents the journey to self-mastery, one that we all are invited to go on in life.
Loosely based on the mythical demigod Hercules, Catman has references to two of his conquests: pythons and lions. One at the start of his life and the other in adulthood.
Two angels look on with headless snakes in their grip. Catman has snake tattoos on his muscular arms and one from an ancient vase depicting Hercules fighting the Nemean Lion. A playful pet cat is coiled around his neck. Perhaps in making friends with both creatures they have merged for him.
The snake symbolizes the beginning of life, the awakening of life force. The lion equates to courage; not the absence of fear but the willingness to ‘be’ in your truth in the face of it.
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