Callirrhoe, 13 July 2006
ink jet print on vellum, luna moth wings, chicken vertebrae, cicada shells, and pigmented beeswax adhered to board

Callirrhoe is a retrograde satellite of Jupiter, discovered in 1999. In Greek mythology, she is a naiad, the daughter of Tethys and Oceanus and the wife of Medusa’s son, Chrysaor.

The writing under the photograph is from Letters to Esther, taken from a letter written by Richard Glendening. It contains a highly romantic passage likening the innate goodness of women to that of angels. Men, conversely, are of a baser nature. It might have been a nice theory in 1920, but it holds women to an impossible standard while selling men short.

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