Menelaos ΒΟΑΩ Print

This drawing forms part of a set of drawings created while producing a series of sculptural assemblages titled "A Catalogue of Shapes". The aim of this series was to depict the ancient Greek poet Homer not as a person, but as a compositional system through the creation a series of composite object portraits of twelve characters drawn from the Iliad and the Odyssey. Menelaos ΒΟΑΩ is a depiction of the Homeric Hero Menelaos, the wronged husband of Helen in the Iliad, and the first to provide Telemachus with news of Odysseus in the Odyssey. The function of the drawing is to establish such compositional aspects as proportion, colour, pattern, etc. of the various found and fabricated elements I plan on using in the sculpture.