Hanna Wright sent Holiday Greetings with Many Visual Delights

[Thom Courcelle]

Hanna Wright sent a holiday envelope that was a virtual cornucopia of visual entertainment.  This included several of her "star-man" figures and experimental figures. I was reminded by several of them of the Greek mythological monster Argos (or Argus) Panoptes, who had a hundred eyes and could see everything around him at once. He was the perfect guardian of prisoners to prevent escape...

Here is a brief summary or overview of Argos the All-Seeing from the Mythopedia website:

“All-seeing” Argus was an enormous monster covered in countless eyes. Unsleeping, ever-vigilant, and loyal, he was a servant of the goddess Hera. In her jealousy, Hera had tasked Argus with guarding Io, a lover of her husband Zeus. But Zeus sent Hermes to liberate Io, and the messenger god slew Argus in the process. 

In some traditions, Hermes used brute force against Argus. But in the more familiar account, he outsmarted Argus, lulling him to sleep with his music and then cutting off his head once all of his eyes were closed. Hera, grieved at the death of her loyal servant, either transformed Argus into a peacock or placed his many eyes on the peacock’s tail feathers.

Hanna also used her own keen eyes to find some remarkable "classic"-looking ephemera from magazine and print material that will work fabulously in future collage work! Busy scissors-work indeed!

Thank you Hanna! It was quite a holiday present to receive!