This limited edition Acrylic Glass Print, designed by Elizabeth Neilson, comes with a numbered and signed certificate of authenticity. Printed on archival-quality photo paper mounted on the back of a 1/8" thick, clear acrylic substrate, this artwork comes ready to hang on a wire attached to a wooden frame fixed on the back.
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About this Artwork
MARENA: THE DEATH OF DEATH
(part 1 of a series on Russian Cosmism)
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culture | Traditional spring rituals like Maslenitsa see Marena, a clawed, fanged Slavic pagan goddess of death and winter, symbolically killed to make way for warm weather and a bountiful growing season. The community creates an effigy of Marena from rags, wraps her in white cloth and ribbons, and drowns her in a river or stream.
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philosophy | One of the core concepts in Cosmist thought is "the death of death"-- resurrection of every human who has died, and immortality for every human now living.
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art | Here, Marena faces her own death; this time she is not thrown, but instead tearfully walks into the stream of her own accord, knowing she has been defeated by humankind at last.
