MakalaBoni_Art

  Artist Statement:  This installation set in the Ponce Residence Hall at Flagler college was a visual representation of a story in Mythology that involves romance, devastation, ambition, and bargaining. The story is of Orpheus and his wife Eurydice, who were a young couple in the times of ancient Greece who were madly in love. In tragic times Eurydice dies after being bitten by a venomous snake and in turn Orpheus fell into a terrible bout of despair. He began bargaining and gambling for any thing that might bring his young wife back to him. In the end his solution was to go into the Underworld and ask Hades and Persephone themselves, to bring Eurydice back from the dead. In doing this Hades agreed to let Eurydice come back to life under the condition that when they left the Underworld, Orpheus was not allowed to look at Eurydice until she had been fully exposed to the light. Determined to have his love back, Orpheus agreed, but as they began their ascent he became suspicious of Hades