Ryan Driscoll
The last vision of a forgotten god, 2025
Oil on wood
14 x 18 in
45.7 x 35.6 cm
45.7 x 35.6 cm
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I was thinking of ideas of dead cultures, mythologies and belief systems and how these things fall away to time or are scrubbed out of history, very much like Celtic/...
I was thinking of ideas of dead cultures, mythologies and belief systems and how these things fall away to time or are scrubbed out of history, very much like Celtic/ Irish mythology had been destroyed by the English. I thought about what it would be like if these myths and deities were real and how they would quietly fade out of existence after being replaced or killed by another culture and what that last display of beauty would be.