Model: Deniz

For this piece in particular I was thinking about Medusa* (such a “blame the victim” story). The blue serpent-like hairs are a prelude to her romance with Poseidon and Athena’s punishment, foreshadowing her fate in a dream.

*Medusa Story as told by Ovid:
In a late version of the Medusa myth, related by the Roman poet Ovid (Metamorphoses 4.770), Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden, “the jealous aspiration of many suitors,” priestess in Athena’s temple, but when she and the “Lord of the Sea” Poseidon lay together in Athena’s temple, the enraged virgin goddess transformed her beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn anybody to stone. In Ovid’s telling, Perseus describes Medusa’s punishment by Athena as just and well-deserved.