patterson_mythmetaphor




 * Left Image:**Untitled by Jerry Ueslmann from http://www.uelsmann.net/
 * Center Image: "**Breeze At Work" by Sandy Skoglund from http://www.flickr.com/photos/12599973@N05/7630058292/
 * Right Image:**"Alice In Wonderland" by Maggie Taylor from http://www.flickr.com/photos/centralasian/4730379801/

The myth I am interpreting is the Greek myth of the Sisters of Fate, where three sisters determine the fate of a person's life; I'm incorporating the metaphor of "the elephant in the room" since death is a weighing secret and it is impossible to know when exactly a person will die. Furthermore into the myth, the three sisters each had a job; one sister, Clotho, spun the yarn or "life of man", another, Lachesis determined the length of each piece of string or "the length of a life" and Atropos, known as the Goddess of Death, did the final job and cut the yarn, taking the life of whoever the string belonged to. Zeus could also make decisions if he wanted to extend or shorten the life of a certain person, but the sisters even had the power to overrule Zeus' orders and it is even said that they had control to kill not only the mortal, but also the immortal.

I will need to shoot pictures of a subject and either copy the same subject over three times or have three different subjects in the photograph; also I will need to find a photo of an elephant that I can use and edit then replace either the whole head of the subject with an elephant head or just parts of the elephants head. It will only focus on the subjects and elephant incorporation, there is not going to be a specific setting, except a black background. I am just fascinated with Greek mythology and I was trying to figure out a metaphor that could go along with the myth I chose, so I decided that since the myth is about death, I should do a metaphor about secrets and the idea of not knowing. I think that it's a really interesting way to incorporate a modern "saying" and an ancient idea.