Transformation
Brooke Flanagan
April 7th, 2025
Major: Graphic Design
Genre/Medium: Digital Anaglyph Art
About the work:
“Transformation” is a digital anaglyph piece where two images are created, one in red and the other in blue. Typically, these two images are of the same object at slightly different angles viewed together. The same is done here except with two forms of Psyche: one at the beginning of the myth and the other at the end. At the start, Psyche’s father is told by an oracle that Psyche would marry not a nobleman but a serpentine monster. She was then brought to the summit of a mountain in black funeral attire where her future husband would take her away. All of this was dictated by the jealous Aphrodite, the goddess of love. She sent her son, Eros, to shoot Psyche with an arrow of love so she would become infatuated with a monster. Yet, as soon as he saw Psyche, he accidentally pierced himself with his own arrow and could not follow his mother’s order. Now, compare this version of her at the end of the myth. By this point she had gone through several almost impossible trials created by Aphrodite, yet with a bit of divine help she overcame each challenge sent her way. Not only that, but she had transcended into a goddess and was now married to Eros, not a terrifying monster. She had gone against fate, curated for her by divine forces and beings. Psyche had transformed into someone not defined by what others wanted, but by what she wanted to be.
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