Jake Baddeley
Jake Baddeley - River of Lethe - oil on canvas - 80 x 60 cm - 2024
Jake Baddeley - River of Lethe - oil on canvas - 80 x 60 cm - 2024 - detail 1
Jake Baddeley - River of Lethe - oil on canvas - 80 x 60 cm - 2024 - detail 2
Jake Baddeley - River of Lethe - oil on canvas - 80 x 60 cm - 2024 - framed in room 1
JJake Baddeley - River of Lethe - oil on canvas - 80 x 60 cm - 2024 - framed in room 2

The River of Lethe

ORIGINAL PAINTING

 

This painting depicts one of the two the sacred rivers that ran through the underworld, according to Ancient Greek myth. To drink from the Lethe would make you forget about the life you just led and you would reincarnate into the world, oblivious of your past life. If you drank from the other river, the Mnemosyne, you would remember the life you had led and you progressed into Paradise.

The theme then is the forgetting of ones true self as we become lost in the world of form, and the process of remembering, of waking up, as the soul learns of its true nature.

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This painting depicts one of the two the sacred rivers that ran through the underworld, according to Ancient Greek myth. To drink from the Lethe would make you forget about the life you just led and you would reincarnate into the world, oblivious of your past life. If you drank from the other river, the Mnemosyne, you would remember the life you had led and you progressed into Paradise.

The theme then is the forgetting of ones true self as we become lost in the world of form, and the process of remembering, of waking up, as the soul learns of its true nature.

Size
80 x 60 cm
Medium
oil paint on canvas
Availability
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Price
€ 4.950
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