Echo Remains
by Leah McPhail
Title
Echo Remains
Artist
Leah McPhail
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Echo, a once talkative nymph cursed by a jealous Juno.
Tongue held captive, able to utter only the most recent words spoken to her by another.
Infatuated by the beauty of Narcissus, yet unable to call out to him and speak the words she so longed so say.
Narcissus eventually called out to his hunting group, as he had become separated. Echo eagerly called back to him repeating his pleas to come together, believing his cries to be him crying out for her. She rushed towards him and attempted to throw her arms around him, but he was repulsed by her. He had fallen in love with his own reflection. Hurt and humiliated by his rejection, her love still grew.
As Narcissus lie wasting away before his own reflection, he took one last look in the pool at himself and uttered, "Oh, marvellous boy, I loved you in vain, farewell."
Echo repeated, "Farewell."
Where he died a single narcissus flower grew.
Echo too wasted away, her beauty vanished, her skin withered and her bones became stones by the water's edge, but her voice remains.
Honored by features on the home pages of the following Fine Art America groups:
Esoteric and Metaphysical Spiritual 01/27/2016
Exploration Photography 01/27/2016
Water Forms 01/27/2016
All aspects of Abstract Work 01/28/2016
Sunsets and Sunrirses 01/28/2016
Mystic and Art 01/30/2016
All Art Welcome 03/06/2016
1 Weekly - ALL Stars 06/26/2016
Water 07/12/2016
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January 24th, 2016
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