Artist: Carolin Leary Prinn
Title: Juno & The Peacock
Medium: Juno & The Peacock
Size: 10.25 x 19.4 inches, 15.8 x 25 inches framed
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The artist´s retelling of Aesop's Fable, "Juno & The Peacock":
The peacock, who normally relished admiration for his beauty, was at last put off by the humble nightingale.
For the nightingale’s song, clear, light and heavenly as the music of Apollo, was as beautiful sounding as the peacock was dazzling in appearance.
And all the birds admired it. And the other birds took the moment to mock the peacock, who upon opening his own mouth, let out only harsh caws.
At last, the discontented peacock went to Juno to complain of his poor lot in life.
He landed there upon the highest pedestal next to her, placing himself neatly at its centre.
“Oh Juno, why have you given me such a poor voice and not a beautiful one, song-like, as that simple Nightingale?”
At that, Juno glared at the covetous Peacock whose tail, even as he complained, swept like a waterfall behind him,
glittering in the sun and sinuously curling in the cool waters of her garden.
“All creatures have been bestowed a gift: To the eagle the gift of strength, to the raven the gift of prophecy, to the nightingale the gift of song, and so on.
I have gifted you the greatest beauty of all creatures - tail green as leaves after rain, radiance multifaceted as the glittering rainbow,
colour borrowed from the palettes of the Garden of Paradise.
And yet all you can do is sit here and complain that I have not given you a voice of gold.
Go off with thee now!
For even if I were to give you your songbird voice,
you would sooner come again to me to complain of something new.”
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