Works ON PAPER: FIFTY DAUGHTERS
11” circle x 1.5”
The names are of fifty women whose father was Danaus, the mythical King of Libya. They were to marry the fifty sons of Danaus’ twin brother, Aegyptus a mythical King of Egypt. All but one of them murdered their husbands on their wedding nights. Forty-nine sisters were condemned to spend eternity carrying water in a sieve as a punishment. Hypermnestra (the sister who spared her husband,) Lynceus did so because he respected her desire to remain a virgin.
