2/3 finished and five more to go, that gives courage!
With this tenth drawing I give my interpretation on the great story of Pyrasmus and Thisbe.
The primal story of impossible love that ends in tragedy with suicide by a misunderstanding/misgiving, as we also know from Romeo and Julie or West Side Story.
And to this day it's still the Greek mythology that determined our visual culture, even though we aren't aware of it. But if we really focus on that topic, we can only conclude that all contemporary fantasy movies had something in common with the greek stories...
Background info from wikipedia:
Pyramus and Thisbe is a story from Greek mythology about the impossible love between two young people from Babylon. Unlike in most mythological stories, play the Greek gods world and supernatural nymphs and satyrs no role.
Pyramus and Thisbe, one of the nicest guys and one of the most beautiful girl from the East are in love with each other. The fact that they are neighbours reinforces this. They would like to marry, but their fathers forbid this. However, there is a crack between the two adjacent homes during the construction of the houses and by this can crack the lovers to communicate with each other.
On a day the two young people at night meet up at the grave of Baadey in the shade of a mulberry tree. Thisbe goes to the agreed place and sit down in the shade of the tree, but then she sees a lioness. The lioness has a bloodied mouth by a recent massacre of cattle. The maiden flight to a cave, and while she flees, she loses her veil. The lioness gets on the veil and tears apart this with her bloodied mouth. When Pyramus arrives at the mulberry tree he sees traces of the lioness in the loose sand and a little further the bloodied veil of Thisbe. Pyramus concludes that Thisbe is eaten by the wild animal and he decides to end his life because he did not want to live without further Thisbe and with a terrible guilt. He takes blame themselves: that he didn't came earlier at the agreed place. He let himself fall on his sword and dies. When Thisbe returns from the cave and wants to go back to the mulberry tree, she does not recognize it first, because the fruits of the tree have been colored by the blood of Pyramus. Later she sees her beloved death lying on the floor. Desperately, she also decides that she can not live without her eternal love, places the sword, which is still tepid from the previous killing, under her ribs and plunges on it. Later, after the two dead lovers have been found, they are put together at the stake and both their ashes are placed in one urn by their parents, to still fulfill their wish to be together.
'PYRAMUS & THISBE'
Pencil on paper
50x70cm
2018
@romaan-namoor