Zabel_mythmetaphor

Picture 1: http://www.underwatersculpture.com/ The artist for this first picture is James deCaires Taylor, he does a lot of pictures that have to do with underwater sculpting.

Picture 2: http://www.sandyskoglund.com/ The artist in picture two 2 is Sandy Skoglund and she does a lot of pictures that deal with repetitive, process-oriented art production through the techniques of mark-making and photocopying.

Picture 3: http://www.pinterest.com/hilraider/art/ The artist in this picture is rene magritte, this person takes the types of picture that reflect someone's personality or how they may be hiding it toward others.

My idea for this mythology is in Germany there is a myth to this day about a craggy hill known as the Rosstrappe which is located in the central part of Germany. The legend says that if you were to climb to the very top of the mountain you can see a hoof print in the rock on the cliff edge, that hoof print caused a legend such as the princess Brunhilde escaped from a giant, Bodo, who wanted to marry her. He chased her to the cliff edge, where her white stallion jumped across and reached the other side, while Bodo jumped after her and plunged to his death. (http://www.thelocal.de/galleries/culture/1475/2) I would like to interpret this as a myth and a metaphor by having someone jump and implying that into my picture. Like I stated before I will have to take a picture of a house, because that was apart of the myth and also having someone jumping because it would really show the audience the true modern day form of this myth. I would like to do this type of myth because it almost talks about pressure and how something so little but yet so big can get into someone's head and cause them to make decisions that they really don't want to make. This is interesting to me because once I read this myth I instantly knew what I was going to do, and right away I felt that connection already with the picture and my idea. I am going to be basing this myth on a German myth, I am doing a German myth because I thought that they would have more interesting and strange, but yet understandable and creative myths. Well like I stated before this myth was taken place in the central part of Germany and there was a princess and a giant, that giant was in love with the princess. Well the princess didn't feel the same way and she and her horse jumped off of a cliff making it to the other side but leaving the giant falling into his death.