Orpheus, a gifted musician, marries Eurydice, but she dies from a snake bite. Grief-stricken, heads towards the underworld and, with his music, persuades Hades to let her return on one condition: he must not look back at her until they reach the surface.
Just before they emerge, Orpheus looks back, and Eurydice is lost to the underworld forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iFGuQaCjFk
Stendhal Syndrome (2024) is a moving-image work by Nan Goldin. It blends her photographs of Classical, Renaissance, and Baroque masterpieces with portraits of her friends, family, and lovers.
The work questions art hierarchies and explores beauty, love, and grief across time.
Currently on Exhibition at Gagosian
I focus to put the moving joints on the knees, hoping that it could generate an organic imitation of the motion of walking. But it turns out to be over complicated.
As I dig deeper into the mechanism, I find it making more senses to put the joints on the feet as then knees will automatically be moving because of the overall movement.
