Make Weird Art

the aim was to blend concepts of sphinx, Prometheus, and harpies. An excerpt of thoughts I shared with a friend: "The hand is intended to be mocking God due to some versions of the myth of Prometheus crediting him with the creation of humanity from clay, and the position of God's hand in 'The Creation of Adam' by Michelangelo. The hand is also made to look like a hawk eating the liver (seat of emotions in ancient Greece) but then also the legs of the bird are made to look like a heart, a more modern view of where emotions are held" The person is positioned upside down with their heart and liver exposed, gore spilling out. In the center is a ball of condensed hell energy, much like the Cerberus have, symbolizing a fire that was stolen that can no longer be let go. The rib wings are to draw more to the harpy allusion, exploded outward from the heart. From the wikipedia page for Sphinx, "There was a single sphinx in Greek mythology, a unique demon of destruction and bad luck. Apollodorus describes the sphinx as having a woman's face, the body and tail of a lion and the wings of a bird." Also considering that in the legend of Oedipus, the Sphinx is said to have either thrown herself off a rock or have consumed herself, both of which further draw more connections to the harpies in the layer of violence in Dante's Inferno, who prey on the people transformed into trees in the Forests of Suicides.