![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Monsters don't want to be monsters. Monsters are sad. The sadness of the Frankenstein monster (who didn't ask to be cobbled together out of bits of cadavers) and the sadness of Count Dracula (because who wants eternal life on such grisly terms?) form part of their continuing appeal. It's one of the better features of us human beings that we feel sympathy and even empathy for creatures that are sad....
The prototypical sad monster is the minotaur- misbegotten child of a white bull and the Cretan Queen Pasiphae. He is imprisoned inside a labyrinth and the only thing that can sustain him is human flesh. It is hardly be supposed that he enjoys this life- the loneliness the captivity, the killing....
Picasso had a thing about minotaurs. I think he saw himself as one- as a sacred monster. The British sculptor Michael Ayrton was another 20th century minotaur freak....
I'm a bit of a minotaur freak myself....
Here are a couple of minotaurs AI made for me....
( Collapse )
The prototypical sad monster is the minotaur- misbegotten child of a white bull and the Cretan Queen Pasiphae. He is imprisoned inside a labyrinth and the only thing that can sustain him is human flesh. It is hardly be supposed that he enjoys this life- the loneliness the captivity, the killing....
Picasso had a thing about minotaurs. I think he saw himself as one- as a sacred monster. The British sculptor Michael Ayrton was another 20th century minotaur freak....
I'm a bit of a minotaur freak myself....
Here are a couple of minotaurs AI made for me....
( Collapse )
