I like to consider Queen Clytemnestra’s grief when discussing her. This piece features a bust of her in mourning, surrounded with candles. Before her is an empty spool, symbolic of a lost life. There are so many deaths in Clytemnestra's story, whose life is this? One she took, or one that was taken from her?

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Fun Facts:

Clytemnestra's sister is Helen. The "Of Troy" one. I find them very interesting, because I think they are both remembered without nuance as basically The Hot One and The Evil One. While that's a fun dynamic, they are very complex characters with their own stories that get overshadowed by the men in them. Shocking, I know.