Re-Konstruct Illustration Collection 2006. Danae

Simplicity, areas of overwhelming pattern and a recoiling female figure communicate the reflective and destructive nature of this story. Danae was raped by Zeus as he poured himself into her lap as a shower of Gold. A story with an important moral, Danae has to come to terms with the fact that her blatant greed contributed to Zeus’s violation as she didn’t question what the Gold was or where it was coming from