Aethon - The Rising

Curatorial Note:

In Aethon - The Rising, from the series The Majesty in Becoming, the artist reconstructs an ancient legend often misattributed to natural history yet eternally embedded in mythic consciousness—the eagle’s rebirth through self-inflicted renewal. According to the enduring allegory, when an eagle reaches the midpoint of its life, its talons grow dull, its beak curves inward, and its wings become heavy with age. In a dramatic act of will, the creature withdraws to the solitude of a high rock, where it breaks its own beak against the stone, plucks out its aged talons, and waits for new ones to grow. Only after this ritual of dismemberment and regeneration does the eagle soar again; reborn, rejuvenated, immortal in spirit.

The painting transposes this myth into a metaphor of conscious transformation. Aethon, depicted at the pivotal moment between decay and renewal, becomes a vessel through which the artist interrogates the dialectic of destruction and creation. The artist reimagines the mythic Aethon not as a static emblem of majesty, but as a sentient participant in the eternal dialectic of suffering and transcendence. 

The work draws on the mythic figure Aethon, the blazing horse of Helios, bearer of the sun’s fire, and the eagle that eternally devoured Prometheus’s liver upon Zeus’s command. This convergence of names, both solar and punitive, positions Aethon as a paradoxical archetype of torment and illumination. Through this dual inheritance, it becomes not merely a punisher of the Titan’s defiance, but the very agent of cyclical rebirth through transformation—the creature that consumes decay to sustain divine order. Thus, Aethon—The Rising is not merely a depiction of mythic transformation, it is the embodied theology of resilience, a reflection on the incandescent truth that to rise is to burn, and to burn is to become light.

Through Aethon – The Rising, the artist confronts the same elemental cycle of destruction and renewal that defines both the myth and the human condition itself—transforming personal struggle into an allegory of collective transcendence, reminding himself that within each act of breaking lies the quiet architecture of becoming anew.

About the Original Painting

Created in 2025, this original painting is on a 72 x 36 in. (36x36 inches x 1 + 18x36 inches x 2) stretched canvas, made using acrylic paints. It will be shipped in its stretched format (1.5 in. gallery-wrapped frame) in well-protected packaging. This artwork has no prints available; only the original is available for sale.

Canvas Details:

Depth: 1.5" (3.8 cm)
Cotton duck, archival & acid-free
Museum-grade

Collector Information:

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