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Song to the Siren by Karen Chappelow original Acrylic, ink and gold foil ready to hang 90x100cm
pagan belief…sirens (mermaids)drew sailors by song to shipwreck, authorities had it they were prostitutes who drew travellers into poverty and imposed shipwreck on them… when Christianity took over they were called courtesans- unmarried companions and female singers at court they were seen as immoral, seen as a creature that control a man’s reason. Sirens were used as a symbol by the church and embodied an immoral temptation. Sailors had tattoos of mermaids so my mermaid has a tat of the most famous sailor beckoning the Yellow Submarine. It could also be a Psychedelic journey-LSD hallucinations and one of the myths of where the song came from by the Beatles, when Lennon and Harrison and their wives took their first trip…the single cover was trippy as was the era…so could all just be a dream.
