Pygmalion Prints

"Pygmalion gazed in wonder, and in his heart there rose a passionate love for this image of a human form. Often he ran his hands over the work, feeling to see whether it was flesh or ivory, and would not yet admit that ivory was all it was. He kissed the statue, and imagined that it kissed him back, spoke to it and embraced it, and thought he felt his fingers sink into the limbs he touched..."*

 

 

 

 

All images on this site are copyright by Chelsea Lynn Bulik, 2001.

*As told by Orpheus in Ovid's Metamorphoses