Medusa: Victim or Monster?

by

Seo Yeon

JIS | Acrylic paint, oil paint, Mixed media | 53 x 46 cm

Medusa, a woman who has snakes for hair and eyes that turn one to stone, was responsible for the deaths of countless lives. But what if Medusa wasn’t the gorgon generations portrayed her as? Molested by Poseidon and punished by her goddess Athena, who’s it to say Medusa was a cold-blooded monster? What if she was a victim of a once patriarchal time and was painted an inevitable fate? In this piece, I portrayed Medusa’s pitiful life to contemporary society, where women continue to be chastised with the inability to plasticize her cruel story to the rest of the world.