Queen of the Gods, Mistress of written language. What we know of Her is difficult to tease out from the many cultures who added their own twist and interpretation. Some will say she is a version of Hathor, no Astarte, no Lilith… So I’ve painted Her to reflect the jumbled herstory we have. The setting is a mixture of a temple at Byblos with a Phoenician fresco of papyrus.
The veil combined with nudity ? A reflection of my own obsession with veils right now, it’s that time of year.
I’m not completely pleased with the end result, mostly because it appears to be a digitally manipulated photograph. It’s not, Baalat herself is painted, but in this context, that gets lost.
I know that brings up a buncha blahblah that I could ramble about, lots of art theory phrases that include the word realism… But really I’m more interested in the Veil right now, in all it’s many forms.