excellent

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Wonderful art!

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Splendid!

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I have always found the paralels between Psych and Pandora interesting (and also interesting parallels between this painting and Waterhouse's Pandora - its such a shame almost all his works are in private collections and never get seen)...

The tableau here immediatly begs the question, what's in the box? Is our rather skeptical and apprehensive looking plumber Psyche's Eros, or are they anticipating a flood of misfortune? Fascinating, and beautifully done.

This second version imposed itself on me, because I saw in the painting representing Pandora a connection with the woman with the crystal ball: both would like to know what the future holds for them. The dominant pink here replaces the red in my previous image, it is no longer the irrepressible flow of blood, it is the sweet emanation of faded flowers. I noticed that in the painting, a light smoke escaped from the box, a metaphor for the evils to come, it reminded me of the finale of Robert Aldrich's film, Kiss Me Deadly, from 1955, where the box finds an even more worrying context in a possible nuclear threat. Here the plumber seems to have given up, her pout says a lot about the inability of water to circumscribe this radioactive light. Platonic light of knowledge? The water will continue to rise and all these suppositions will be nothing more than a distant memory...

Though the painting you have chosen for the wall is "Psyche opening the golden box"; the smoke escaping from the box is the dark sleep of Persephone - though it could easily be taken for Pandora loosing the evils; the parallels are many, and Psyche too was curious about her future...

Ah, what a mistake on my part! Thanks for correcting it, dear Joe.