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Finally finished *Death and the Maiden*. Done for the june theme of Enchanted Visions : Wonder. I´ve been thinking about the myth and history behind the idea of death personified meeting a young woman, taken by her beauty and falling in love with her. As a concept, death and the maiden was a motif in Renaissance art, and was often depicted erotically. Though I have to admit that the paintings I saw were erotic only in the sense that they portrayed nudity and very morbid in the way they depicted death stealing the maiden away. To be honest, my true inspiration and moment the idea came to me was when I first watched the music video for True Love by Eivør (link below).
Ever since I saw the video and listened to the lyrics, I wondered whether it´d be less about death possessing a mortal´s love by his/her sheer power as an entity, given that death must be unimaginably powerful and strange, but moreso, the entire romance might depend on whether that mortal could make death fall in love with them. What kind of person could sway an immortal entity into loving them, and to add to that, this isn´t a mortal/immortal romance as in gods and mortals. This is about death, the very opposite of life, which we all need. And the video illustrates precisely that problem; everything death touches ages and dies. So how could death ever love and be with a loved one? A mystery wrapped in a riddle hidden in an enigma tucked away as a secret...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJL39P…

Description
Blue pen.

Finally finished *Death and the Maiden*. Done for the june theme of Enchanted Visions : Wonder. I´ve been thinking about the myth and history behind the idea of death personified meeting a young woman, taken by her beauty and falling in love with her. As a concept, death and the maiden was a motif in Renaissance art, and was often depicted erotically. Though I have to admit that the paintings I saw were erotic only in the sense that they portrayed nudity and very morbid in the way they depicted death stealing the maiden away. To be honest, my true inspiration and moment the idea came to me was when I first watched the music video for True Love by Eivør (link below).
Ever since I saw the video and listened to the lyrics, I wondered whether it´d be less about death possessing a mortal´s love by his/her sheer power as an entity, given that death must be unimaginably powerful and strange, but moreso, the entire romance might depend on whether that mortal could make death fall in love with them. What kind of person could sway an immortal entity into loving them, and to add to that, this isn´t a mortal/immortal romance as in gods and mortals. This is about death, the very opposite of life, which we all need. And the video illustrates precisely that problem; everything death touches ages and dies. So how could death ever love and be with a loved one? A mystery wrapped in a riddle hidden in an enigma tucked away as a secret...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJL39P…