Something Else Amazing I Didnt Realise I Needed In My Life.

Something else amazing I didn’t realise I needed in my life.

Everyone I have talked to today about Stitched Iliad and trying to finish book 2: Me: it's 877 lines. Them: ... Book 2 is that long?? Them: ... Them: *groan* Them: catalogue of ships. Of course.

And this is the point where I have to accept that I need to write out the next page of pattern. (The orange T is theta, the dark red T is Tau).

This is another WIP from fellow artist Sam, and I just want to say: THIS. So much this. Every article I've read about the Prometheus Bound which argues that Zeus isn't a big bad points to this "gentle touch" that impregnates Io as if it's a good thing. Like, "well it's not rape because it's just a touch, a sort of immaculate conception so we don't even have to worry about consent at all." I'm working a bit on the Prometheus Bound right now as one of the only sources outside Hesiod that mentions Kratos and Bie (two of the children of Styx) and I'd been sending Sam problematic extracts from what I'd been reading, and then she just produces this: this beautiful, succinct piece of art that is this fantastic rebuttal to all these stupid articles I've been reading. And it's just. The. Best. Thing. Ever.

Another really cool art-writing-translation project.

Unsurprising fact: lots of lines in the Iliad start with των. Or occasionally, for variation, τωι.* You can tell which lines they are in this photo because ω is currently the only letter I'm using a blue for. So every line that has a blue second stitch is των (or τωι). *It's actually τω with an iota subscript, but throughout the whole project I'm reverting them back to full iotas.