Medusa – Artwork
Wool, Acrylic Paint, Leaf Gold, Metal chain.
200x100x30cm (2025)
Medusa is both guardian and wound, resurrection and refusal. A mirror turned toward those who would name power as sin.
In the ancient myth, she stood not as a monster, but as a sentinel. On the carved stones of forgotten temples, Medusa bore wings— her gaze turned outward, guarding the city against the unseen. Maison Douce reclaims this image: not the cursed, but the consecrated.
In this work, the Gorgon becomes a warrior-saint, restored to her rightful altar. Acrylic and gold leaf shimmer like relics unearthed; her head, needle-felted, breathes again in quiet defiance. Chalk wings whisper protection.
We blessed her in a ceremony of smoke and silence—an act we will repeat, again and again, until her story is clean of fear. Through this rite, we reject the centuries-old violence of interpretation—the gaze that made her monstrous for daring to look back.
