Medusa

by Dan Cohen

Oil and Acrylic on Masonite

9.5″ x 7.5″ Unframed

10.75″ x 12.75″ Framed

She comes from the ancient past as many things. A monster, a protector, a lover, a victim, a revenant. Through every generation, she is re-formed, made relevant, cast in new roles that speak more towards the current times than any dusty, classical myth. Today her gaze casts its petrifying light on those who pine for an atavistic form of society, where roles are frozen, and society works only for the privileged. Her derisive stare pins them in place, stopping them in their tracks.

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Dan Cohen

Dan Cohen is a classically trained painter, sculptor and muralist. His work has been shown at galleries and events around the world – and on many buildings and walls.

Dan’s influences include world mythologies, occult sciences, and alternative states of consciousness. His signature elements – beautifully rendered forms, archetypal symbolism, Alien Deco designs – bridge the past and future, magic and technology.

He currently lives in Portland, OR.

“My Superhero Mission is to Re-Enchant the World. It’s all too easy these days to feel disenchanted, as though Magic and Wonder are dead and gone, encased in a tomb made of jaded cynicism and modern materialism. Magic and Wonder are still here of course, waiting to be acknowledged. Re-enchantment is attuning to the humming Soul of the World. It’s revealing the hidden layers of meaning that lie just below the surface of things. It’s playing with possibilities. It’s the feeling of a before unseen world crystalizing right before your eyes. Of peering into that unknown yet familiar world, then having the feeling that something is peering back.”

If you are interested in my work, please visit my website for other paintings, commissions and prints!

Website: dc-creativelabs.com
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