The Ovid convex mirror is all about the large oval ellipsoids( like an elongated sphere, almost egg shape) that I found at a Gem/Mineral show. These are heavy, rock crystal quartz. They create a halo around a silver gilt frame with an inner rim of transparent Venetian glass rods and pyrite spheres.
The Ovid convex mirror is being shipped to my NYC venue, KRB. Call 212-228-2221 for more information.
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Ovid ( 43 BC to 18 AD) is the English name for the ancient roman poet. His most famous creation was the epic Metamorphosis, which told the stories of mythical gods and mortals. Many of these legends involved the transformation from one thing to another. Usually one of the gods transforming into an animal or bird or gender to seduce a mortal being.
The idea of transformation relates to my Ovid convex mirror. In that all the elements( wood, glass, quartz,etc…) are transformed from their natural state into something that creates a decorative object like this mirror. I guess that this is something that all my mirror, if not all art, have something in common.
The recurring theme, as with nearly all of Ovid’s work, is love—be it personal love or love personified in the figure of Amor, or Cupid, son of Venus, goddess of love. Indeed, the other Roman gods are repeatedly perplexed, humiliated, and made ridiculous by Amor, an otherwise relatively minor god of the pantheon, who is the closest thing this putative mock-epic has to a hero. Apollo comes in for particular ridicule as Ovid shows how irrational love can confound the god out of reason. The work as a whole inverts the accepted order, elevating humans and human passions while making the gods and their desires and conquests objects of low humor. Love has also been proposed as one of the ordering principles of the work, in that the focus changes over the 15 books from male to female desire, for example, and asymmetrical, violent forms of love are replaced by the depiction of consensual relationships in the course of the entire work.
Thank you Wikipedia for the above succinct summation
An example of one of Ovid’s poems is the one about the god, Apollo, falling in love with the nymph Daphne. Apollo tries to seduce Daphne but she will not have it and runs away. Eventually she is exhausted and terrified and pleads to her father, a river god, Peneus to save her. He commences to transform her into a laurel tree. Defeated, Apollo unsurprisingly embraces the laurel tree and declares it to be dedicated to him. So, even today, the laurel is a symbol for the god. Laurel wreathes have been placed on the heads of victors( athletics, war, any kind of competition) since ancient times.
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