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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Twenty Two: Black and white travel photography – making less into more > Medusa, Side, Turkey, 2011
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21-NOV-2011

Medusa, Side, Turkey, 2011

I found this depiction of Medusa in the garden of Side’s archeology museum. The shadows intensify the scowl of the creature, an ancient Greek image widely used to avert evil. She always is shown with living snakes emerging from her head, and supposedly can turn living creatures into stone. In this case, the Romans turned the tables on Medusa and cast her in stone. My black and white interpretation reinforces the stony texture of the sculpture.

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