Merope and Sisters

Date: 2015

Medium: O/C

Size: 60" x 48"

Description:

Merope was the last of the sisters to join the Pleadies constellation.  She is the faintest of the stars because the gods were perturbed that she married a mortal. One of the versions of the myth of the costellation was that the gods turned the sisters into birds to escape the clutches of Orion.