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Published: 2010-12-07 01:51:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 1963; Favourites: 94; Downloads: 0
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This regal rat represents Ananke, the primordial Greek goddess of fate and necessity. She represents destiny, and is often depicted with a spindle where she weaves fate for all beings. She sits on a Rowan branch, filled with brilliant red-orange berries which symbolize protection against negativity, and express wisdom.This piece took a long while to make due to its personal nature to me. I'm happy with how it turned out though.
About 4x12 inches. Scratchboard and watercolor, with a small amount of gouache (and the requisite digital touching up to remove dust and debris from my horrible scanner)
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Comments: 19
Holy crap this is beautifully original and fresh to look at. I love your work. Watching you..
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She's beautiful - I think this is one of your most striking works, and that's saying a lot
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Really nice technique used! 
Somehow, it reminds me how nostalgic I am right now...I used this way of drawing before
and find it so cool. lol!
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Love the lines and flow of this piece. I was cusrious, is the rat part of the personal side of the piece or is it the creature you would mosrt associate with Ananke's sphere, or simply a love of rats? Not meaning to pry at all, just curious.
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I have been using rats lately as a representation of different aspects of dreams I've had, or problems I may be going through in my life. In this case, I've been really interested in fate and predestination; the nature of inevitability and free will. Ananke is the goddess of all these things, and seemed an appropriate way to express this.
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So then the rat(s) represents the little piece of you in the aspect/theme of the art work. Interesting way to go about it! Thankthee for taking the time to reply and explain. (:
(and I do appologise if this should appear twice, seem to have a reply box hiccup).
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The rats are back! 
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I don't think I can leave the rats just yet! I have a few more to do I think before I'm done.
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I look forward to it
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