Chuck Sperry "Danaide" Blotter Art
Signed, numbered edition of 300
Print measures 6.25x9
Perforated into 900 quarter inch squares
Each print hand signed by world renown screen printer Chuck Sperry. See more of Chuck’s work @yosquirt.
Print will be available at the Shakedown vending strip at the Tuscany Casino in Las Vegas starting on Thursday, April 16th prior to the Phish shows, and will be available online at 9am Pacific on ShakedownGallery.com on Bicycle Day, 4/19.
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“Danaïde” wears early spring flowers and carries her terracotta amphora decorated with the winged horse Pegasus. As Pegasus stamps the earth, so bursts a spring; as Hippocrene flows on Mt Helicon, so flows inspiration from the source of the muses.
The myth of the 50 Danaïdes, condemned for all eternity to toil, to endlessly carry water to fill a leaking vessel. Sisyphus fated to bear his heavy stone uphill, only to lose his burden near the hilltop, and to begin again.
This is our struggle for equal rights, for our democracy. To paraphrase Albert Camus: the struggle itself — to continually work to fill the leaking jar — is enough to fill her heart. One must imagine the Danaïdes happy.
