by Luis Ardila

Artwork Description

This time you eat the fruit my snaky friend (Clotho, Python and Zeus)

30.0 x 40.0 inches

Clotho is the youngest of the Moirai who presided over the destiny of man and is the young aspect of Destiny. Among the three Moirai (Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos) Clotho was in charge of spinning the thread on her spinning wheel and that thread represented human life and her decisions represent the destiny of all people in society. One of the most important missions narrated in Greek mythology is to give Typhoon or Python a poisoned fruit to eat, pretending that it would give him more strength. Python is a monster ally of Chaos and the Titans who will fight against Zeus (he is the personification of Order). By eating the fruit Python loses power and can be defeated by the lightning bolts of Zeus. In Egyptian mythology it is Isis and the serpent is Seth. In Christianity Clotho is represented as the Virgin Mary or the new Eve, defeating the gruesome serpent of paradise to finally put it at her feet, which is the symbol of his surrender. This fruit known as good and evil or Science in the Hebrew Old Testament would empower whoever ate it by opening their eyes to a new reality and equating it to God, achieving the ultimate goal of possessing the fruit of the Tree of Life. The fundamental problem with the fruit is that it is still immature, giving a partial and unbalanced vision of good and evil, what it has done is that science, rather than serving to maintain order in nature, has managed to alter that order and put the planet and its inhabitants in danger of extinction. Those who handle science should have acted with greater prudence when it comes to life itself. Taking the fruit of the Tree of Life without the authorization of Heaven all it does is activate the Cherub and the fire sword that protects it.

Artwork Details

Medium: Painting Oil

Genre: Figurative