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Hi! This is Mushtaq, the author of the websites: Art Prose and Rhyme and The Realms Frequented By The Muses.
Although a Socratian to the core I have had several experiences in some utterly hostile environments on our planet where I did get away with my life without any help from other people or a lobby, an Institution or a Nation and certainly not by dint of any acts of chivalry or some cunning strategy like those of Ulysses but by sheer luck. However this luck had strangely a pattern in it, somehow akin to experiences reminiscent of those experienced by people, who claim to have the favor of a guardian angel. I tend to see this angel as a goddess though, very female, potentially benign to me but unfortunately not objective or fair to all parties nor is she free from political intrigue. She is not directly related to the Muses though. At present she seems to have other things on her mind than my welfare.
In my new painting she (objectified as Ariadne, who too was chosen by the gods to help Theseus) is accordingly depicted in a rather sketchy manner, with her face averted from Theseus _who is presently in the Labyrinth _ but she is displaying the red string quite conspicuously. This Artwork really emerged prior to this interpretation of mine. In fact I am traveling through a kind of labyrinth now and I don’t see my guardian angel at present ( or rather I was confronted with an averted face and a barely visible shape as I tried to invoke her) but she sure seems to have given me the string, that is helping me to come out of the dark recesses of this labyrinth. Well you could render your own mythological or Freudian explanations for this phenomena but I know this artwork is the product of the Muses and not mine.
Ariadne and Theseus (detail)