This limited edition Giclée Art Print, designed by Elizabeth Neilson, comes with a numbered and signed certificate of authenticity. Printed on 100% cotton, acid-free, heavyweight paper using HDR UltraChrome Archival Ink, this artwork reflects our commitment to the highest color, paper, and printing standards.
This limited edition Fine Art Block designed by Elizabeth Neilson is numbered, signed and comes with a certificate of authenticity. Artwork is printed on fine art paper using archival inks and mounted to a 2" deep hand stained dark brown frame. Comes ready to hang.
MARENA: THE DEATH OF DEATH (part 1 of a series on Russian Cosmism) ||| 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. ||| 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. ||| 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.
